Section 9

When night turned to day and early morning came, he gave the order for the army to withdraw. Two faces came, pale as reeds; and when the dark night fell, they drew near. He wrote a letter to his son, telling him to bring the crooked matter into the garden. Ardeshir sprang up from our bedside so fast that no arrow ever left a bow so swiftly. He came toward Pars in secret search of it. Say nothing of this to anyone in the world.