"I watched someone writing with them, and saw that they already had the ink inside. A simple enough concept, if one has the tools to craft such a thing. Most questions can be answered simply by watching others."

If Bayard was a grown man, Altaïr would have carried a tone of superiority. But children he gave the benefit of the doubt. It didn't make sense to lord himself over someone several years his junior.

"This as a profession would not suit me. I like to be out and about." As evidenced by hardly keeping to his living quarters at all. "I am only resting now. And you? What were you working on?"