Yes, Altaïr. When Abbas has turned all of Masyaf against you, claiming you to be too power hungry for your own good, you will run because even you are not so stupid as to believe you can defeat so many on your own. [ he's really just saying things now. what does he know of this aside from what Tazim told him? nothing. this is too far in the future for Malik to actually know anything of it and either way, he's dead at this point.

this is far from what he wanted the focus of this conversation to be, but is he really surprised? no. it's Altaïr, after all. of course this is the part he's focused on. ]