After failing to blackmail Marcellus into giving him a massive fortune. Yazdegerd and his forces began the long march back to the city of Constantinople, completely unaware that, throughout the length of their journey, they were being stalked by a vicious predator.
They were careless in their diplomatic defeat and kept their heads low. Thus, they did not see the threat to their very lives until it was all but too late. At the moment, the eastern roman regent, and his forces had entered a dense thicket of woods, which were completely surrounded by fog. Obscuring their view of what lies within the treeline.
Yazdegerd was more occupied with his failed negotiations and how he had overlooked a crucial detail which led to his current situation. He did not know who it was that gave such an important piece of evidence to Marcellus, but Yazdegerd knew that when he found out that man's identity he would stop at nothing to claim his life, and that of his family.
