Altaïr watched him - and he found himself smiling almost despite himself. "Everything you say makes me wish to keep you in my sight for as long as I can. I truly have missed you."

He wanted to say that he should never have gone to Mongolia. If he hadn't, it would have changed everything. But if he hadn't, if he had sent Darim, would it have gone as well as it did? There were too many questions down that path.