[Altaïr is quiet for a few moments before answering. Even now, after he's done it a few times, he's not accustomed to revealing much of himself. But Hilda has done it already, made herself vulnerable — he can do the same. If he can't trust her with that much, then who?]

It would be more accurate to say that I happened to others.

[Not the men he killed, not the nine Templars or the men who served them. He holds no regrets about their deaths. But others...]

The shorter version of the story is that two of my brothers and I were sent to accomplish a task. Because of my actions that day, one of them died and the other was permanently maimed.