“I’m not asking you to fight for me. I’m not expecting it, either. You have your people here, don’t mess with that.” Lucy half turned away so she wouldn’t have to keep looking at him. Yeah, he was good looking, and she’d even told Shaun, once upon a time, that she’d liked him. But that was before everything had blown up on her face, somehow, and she’d been found out.

“It matters. It’s always going to matter. This fight has been going on for far too long for it not to, for some of them. So yeah, it probably was kind of stupid to tell Altaïr of all people that.”

May the Father of Understanding guide us... and all that.