On playing ACII and getting to THAT strange dream

[pushesgently]

Stop your laughter. No matter what you saw, Maria and I were not flirting, and the conclusion of that chase was not for your eyes.

[Yeah, someone is slightly annoyed that the bleeding effect just happened to show Desmond the conception of one of his ancestors.]

There's no reason that such a brief appearance should encourage you to take me from my world and place me in another. Focus on the man from Italy, if you're enjoying his tale so much. My work is not a game, and I refuse to play in one of yours.

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[lifescratched]

Yes, they have the freedom to believe what they will. That is their right. But...

[but why can't everyone just get along omg :'(]

[pushesgently]

They walk their path, as we walk ours.

[There, there.]

[lifescratched]

But do those paths always have to be fated to clash? Wars cannot go on forever, even if it seems that ours does. [He clasps his hands, and stares down at them, a pained frown crossing his expression.] If those paths were simply to run parallel, or if they joined... Perhaps...

[He doesn't complete that thought. He imagines Altaïr to be an Assassin like Achilles: no-nonsense, true to the old ways of the Creed, with no time or interest in "misplaced sentiment", as his mentor called it.]

[pushesgently]

[Not so very much without sentiment. Altaïr can see the conflict on Connor's face. If he can do something to ease it, isn't that part of his duty as well, as one who came before him?]

A man I once regarded as a father spoke similarly to me, long ago. He told me that our goals are not so very different from those of the Templars'—merely the means through which we achieve them.

[lifescratched]

[Surprised, Connor looks back up to meet Altaïr's eye. That's exactly the opposite of what Achilles would say.]

And what has experience taught you since then? Do you agree?

[pushesgently]

There may be some truth to it.

[He isn't so sure. Al Mualim had been a Templar himself, and a traitor on many levels. But he can at least consider the idea.]

But to a mind that would be enslaved by the Templars, an individual whose freedom and choices would disappear—the difference in how we achieve those goals would be very important, indeed.