[No one is that good. Or so he'd have thought up to now. He's already come to terms with the fact that he must re-examine his expectations in this land, but it seems that will extend farther than he understood.]
You're a scholar?
[Altaïr has the sense that this isn't quite what he meant, but he isn't sure how that profession relates to prompting forthrightness.]
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[No one is that good. Or so he'd have thought up to now. He's already come to terms with the fact that he must re-examine his expectations in this land, but it seems that will extend farther than he understood.]
You're a scholar?
[Altaïr has the sense that this isn't quite what he meant, but he isn't sure how that profession relates to prompting forthrightness.]