"I am not familiar with that word. A title?"

He was talking to the son of a military commander, if his hunch was right. Not really the type of people Altaïr liked to work with, since he found himself mostly outside of the law and purposefully avoiding any side of a war. Soldiers and guards had the red aura of an enemy in his second sight. He guarded his expression.

"You must be very proud," he stated the obvious. "I took my father's profession as soon as I was old enough. Do you plan to do the same?"