They could use it. [Malik all but huffs, glancing to the darkened courtyard out the window.] As always many still have their youthful arrogance. Some things never do change, do they?
[After a moment he waves his hand dismissively.] Bah, this reflecting on that past, how indulgent we have become in old age. [There's the dryness again, they really were far too young, even if it felt anything but sometimes to Malik.] Perhaps it is a necessary sort, to not fall into the same trappings those before us did.
[He glances in Altair's direction, a small sort of smile finding it's way to his lips, amused but with something lurking at the edges.] A very short time ago hearing you call me 'friend' would have been just as strange. Yet here we stand, having witnessed everything rise, fall then rise again, having seen the impossible in that artifact- tell me truly, brother, do you sometimes not wake to wonder how much of this was a dream still?
YEARS LATER I'M SORRY
[After a moment he waves his hand dismissively.] Bah, this reflecting on that past, how indulgent we have become in old age. [There's the dryness again, they really were far too young, even if it felt anything but sometimes to Malik.] Perhaps it is a necessary sort, to not fall into the same trappings those before us did.
[He glances in Altair's direction, a small sort of smile finding it's way to his lips, amused but with something lurking at the edges.] A very short time ago hearing you call me 'friend' would have been just as strange. Yet here we stand, having witnessed everything rise, fall then rise again, having seen the impossible in that artifact- tell me truly, brother, do you sometimes not wake to wonder how much of this was a dream still?