Marcus had managed to meet up with his escorts and his only explanation for why he had looked so rattled was that he had encountered some bandits.
He had been shaken as he had returned back to the castle and yet everyone had just attributed it to his being robbed. He had never felt so bare before, so naked, and at that moment, had felt as though the entire world could see him for who he really was.
For a long time, he had hidden his ambitions deeply, showing to the world only his gentle smiling facade. And now, having it all exposed, throws him into a great panic- his concern, not that everyone would know of his true sinister mind, but that in doing so, he would then be made unable to have his revenge and actualize his grand ambitions.
He had never been the same again after that encount
