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pair of guards, who came hurrying up. Moments later Altaïr was also
grabbed. He, too, was manhandled to the cells.
Later, Al Mualim decided that after a month in the dungeons, they
should resume their training. Abbas’s crime was deemed the more
serious of the two; it was he who had allowed his emotions free rein and
by doing so brought disrepute to the Order. His punishment was that his
training be extended for an extra year. He would still be on the training
yard with Labib when Altaïr was made an Assassin. The injustice
increased his hatred of Altaïr, who slowly came to see Abbas as a
pathetic, bitter figure. When the citadel was attacked, it was Altaïr who
saved the life of Al Mualim and was elevated to Master Assassin. That
day, Abbas spat in the dirt at Altaïr’s feet but Altaïr just sneered at him.
Abbas, he decided, was as weak and ineffectual as his father had been.
Perhaps, looking back, that was how he had first become infected by
arrogance.