[There is a sigh at that, and Ezio lets the silence answer for them for a moment before speaking.]

It was your arrogance, wasn't it? That caused you to break the creed? [A beat.] I remember being told you were demoted due to your pride, but I was not told why.

[Here, he pauses again, but not out of caution, but thinking on his own.]

I was nineteen, from when the gods pulled me. At that time, I had just begun my journey as an Assassin, and knew nothing of the Brotherhood. All I was concerned at the time was exacting revenge for my family. Making the Templars pay for ruining everything in my life.

It would take me twenty years to realize that revenge does nothing but leave and widen the holes in our hearts. It is pointless as it is futile.