Malik began eating carefully, nodding along where appropriate in Altair's telling of events. His expression softened at the admittance at the end, it was something he understood.

"It is not wrong of you to disagree with others about minding staying here." He said, "You gave the Brotherhood a longer lifetime than most, having the chance to step back and do things because you wish to do them here is not one I would hold against you for taking. Not when I sought out a solution to something similar."

He gives a half smile, because he knows exactly how foolish what he did was.

"Mind you, it involved begging one of the greek pantheon for immortality so yours is far less foolish an idea."