[ He does not rise from where he is seated on some cushions at a low table, as he usually would have, and he only greets her with a cold look. He places a book looking to be from his time, but very aged and worn, on the side of the table closer to Thorne. It is open to a page of technical drawings done in the same style Altaïr illustrates his Jaunt codices. ]

Do not turn the pages, they are fragile.

[ Three centuries of being passed from Assassin to Assassin to Templar to Assassin would do it. He also does not want her reading the rest of his Codex. His voice is cold, too. ]

Malik may be able to do it the longer way if you cannot.