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teecupangel · 3 months
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Dog Desmond again, but this time of this exact size.
Just a tiny little unhinged man, shaking in pure rage bc his legs are SHORT, dammit, and he has to run after Altair, who's now a GODDAM GIANT WHO DOESN'T LOOK DOWN!
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Additions by teecup:
Altaïr knew he was being followed.
It was an unfamiliar feeling.
Whenever he felt it, he had always taken the steps to find out whoever was following him.
But this time…
No matter how fast he turned or hide in one of the darker alleyways to find out who was following him…
He never could.
The feeling persisted as he walked the crowded market of Acre as part of the informant’s request to help him find information about a secret auction that supposedly sold smuggled goods from crusader lands. From what the informant could find out, the auction was supposed to be in control of a third party that had no real ties to the ruler of Acre at the moment. The informant needed more than that though so the Rafiq could make the right decision of either allying with these smugglers or requesting Al Mualim permission to take their operation down.
The marketplace was said to have customers of theirs and an auction was to be held soon so the informant requested Altaïr to walk around and listen to other people’s conversations on the off-chance there would be anything that can point them to the direction of the auction’s location. The informant, on the other hand, would sneak to a known customer and snoop around. It was the more dangerous of the two tasks, as the known customer was a high ranking member of the guards.
Altaïr was sure the informant picked that one because it would be easier to finish than wandering aimlessly hoping to find some sort of clue.
Altaïr had also been preoccupied trying to find out how the person tailing him was able to evade him, even when he uses his Sights, that he wasn’t paying that much attention to anything else.
There was nothing in his Sights which meant whoever this person was, they weren’t acting any different than the crowd around him.
Or…
Altaïr didn’t have enough information for his Sights to see what his eyes could not.
It was annoying, reminding Altaïr of his training, trying to get his Sight to work and see a brother attacking him while they spar as red instead of blue.
Be reminded that his partner back then was Abbas only made Altaïr more annoyed than he already was.
That was when he heard a man yelp behind him and he immediately turned around. The man was groaning at the broken wooden box he had dropped and let out a cry when he saw that the fruits inside had been damaged. He talked of a large rat that he had to evade or he would step on it and some of the other people looked at their feet to see if there really was a large rat.
Altaïr glanced down as well, mostly because he was curious and…
A small black furry creature was running towards him and slammed into his leg. It began to paw at his leg as it let out sounds that reminded Altaïr of a puppy.
Its entire body was trembling and it stared at Altaïr with glowing golden eyes.
And Altaïr felt it again.
The feeling of being watched.
That was why he couldn’t find whoever was tailing him.
It had been this pup.
But… why?
Altaïr felt eyes on him, different from the feeling of the puppy watching him, and realized that some of the people have realized that the large rat was now trying to climb his leg. He grabbed the puppy by the scruff of his neck, making the puppy yelp. Altaïr growled and changed the way he held it, letting the puppy flop on his palm on his belly while he quickly left the marketplace.
When he returned to the meeting place, the informant was already there and told him that he found the location. He thanked Altaïr for trying to help (even if he did nothing in the end) and gave him the information he had on Altaïr’s target, all the while staring at the small pup in Altaïr’s hand.
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It would be a bit later when Altaïr finally washed the puppy that he’ll find out that the puppy wasn’t black but actually white.
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