[Strangely, Altaïr doesn't feel anything like the anxiety that only faintly shows in Ezio's voice. No one regrets the events in Solomon's Temple more than he does, but he does not fear recounting them now because will never hide them. He doesn't have the right, and both the test he underwent afterward and Malik's forgiveness are the building blocks of who he is now.]

He died because of me, Ezio. Malik, too, lost his arm because of my actions. [He speaks calmly, evenly.] We'd been sent to retrieve an important item in Jerusalem, and I broke every tenet of the creed doing it. Malik and Kadar suffered for what I did.