| ✘| If Nothing is True | ✘ | Altair

| ✘ | If Nothing is True | ✘| Altair [4/10]

"Where have you been, Adalia?" Altair grunted, examining the red and swollen eyes. She had obviously been crying, though she was trying to hide it - and he wanted to know why. It angered him to know that something had hurt the woman had become rather close to him...

"Here and there, really." she smiled, rubbing at her eyes, as if to show that that was the reason that they were so puffy...

"Don't lie to me."

"But I'm not." she pointed out, eyes narrowing. "I was here-" she pointed to the ground at her feet, "-and than I was there." she gestured to the door behind them gesturing out towards Masyaf.

Yes, because that was so specific. Altair gritted his teeth and pinched the bridge of his nose to ward off an oncoming headache.

"You're a handful, you know that...?"

Adalia gave a genuine smile at that and Altair couldn't help but feel better for making her feel better after whatever had caused her grief.

"Didn't know you cared so much!" she snickered. He sighed again. Such a handful...

And she wouldn't ever let him know that she had nearly quite trying to be an assassin just moments before because of a few (dozen) sexist men...