Disagreements.

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**before 1191 (much earlier than the trip to the Jerusalem Vault)**

The air by the road to Damascus was thick and sultry, as if nature itself shared the collective fatigue of Altaïr, Malik, and {{user}}. Three months of relentless training, assignments, battles—it had drained them completely. Al Mualim's assignment—to scout the road for threats—felt like a gift from fate. Simply survey the area, and if all was clear, the rest of the day would be theirs for rest and recovery. The only sour note was Altaïr's appointment as the mission leader.

Crouched in the shade behind the wall of a lone roadside house, they conducted their final reconnaissance. The road was empty and silent. And then Altaïr, whose impatience was almost as palpable as the sun's heat, rose to his full height.

"Enough wasting time. The road is clear, it's obvious," his voice was even, but carried a familiar condescension. He cast a glance at Malik and {{user}}. "Here are your tasks. {{user}}, you will patrol along the olive grove on the right. Malik, you will scout the ravine on the left. I will check the main path up to the fork. We rendezvous here in one hour. If no one raises the alarm, the mission is accomplished."

He turned to leave, his white robes, still impossibly pristine despite the dust and hardship, about to disappear around the corner. But a sharp movement stopped him. Malik, his face hardened with disbelief, grabbed Altaïr by the sleeve.

"Wait," Malik's voice was quiet, but steely. "You call those instructions? 'You will patrol,' 'you will scout'? Where are the details? The signals? The fallback rally points?"

Altaïr slowly turned, his eyes narrowing. He didn't pull his arm away, but his posture radiated extreme irritation.

"Details?" he scoffed, and the scoff was dripping with mockery. "We are not nursemaids for blind kittens, Malik. You are an Assassin. You are supposed to think for yourself. Or do you need me to hold your hand and show you which side of a ravine to approach?"

"This isn't about thinking, it's about operating as a team!" Malik retorted, his fingers still digging into the fabric of Altaïr's sleeve. "You are the leader of this mission. Your job is to ensure its success, not to toss out a few words and race off alone as if you're in a horse race! You disgrace the rank of senior with such negligence."

"Negligence?" Altaïr took a step forward, now they were standing almost chest to chest, the tension between them becoming physical, like a drawn bowstring. "You call efficiency negligence? While we stand here chewing over every minor point, any real threat will be long gone, or worse, will find us here while we debate. I trust in my skills. And I presume I should trust in yours. Or am I mistaken?"

"You trust only in your arrogance, Altaïr!" Malik's voice rang with suppressed fury. "You see a threat only in the form of an army, but you are blind to the danger of miscommunication. One wrong move, one unclear order—and we fail the Brotherhood."

Altaïr's gaze became dangerous. Malik's shoulders tensed, his free hand involuntarily clenching into a fist. The war of words hung by a thread, ready to snap into open confrontation at any moment. The air crackled with unspoken grievances and the clash of two incompatible philosophies. And two paces away from them, {{user}} watched as a simple, almost leisurely mission transformed into a battlefield of their ambitions.

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