When he met Aristotle and his assistant, being chased by Persians. He returned to Cardia and met an old woman and Antigonus. He used Antigonus's vase and the old woman to trick Cardia's guards to open the gate. Then he continued to his former house, where he met his friend, now Cardia's guard (where he knew that his former fiancée was married to a wheelmaker's son) and met his step-brother, who apologized to him for being a coward. He also knew that Eumenes was set up by his father's friend. And let him see his mother's grave, revealing that until death, she tried to apologize to her estranged stepson. He later met his father's friend's slave and tried to kill him, but he killed him in self-defense. He met the friend of his father, and met Antigonus alongside him. Antigonus orders his assistant to kill (faking fighting) to let him escape and meet him in the city gates. It was later revealed Antigonus (a pseudonym) is Philip of Macedon when the Macedonian general bowed to him. And Cardia was captured after 3 days. He was sent to the Imperial Palace to act as his Royal Secretary. Despite his Scythian background, he was trained by the Macedonians. He also met young Alexander the Great, young Arrhidaeus, and other Macedonian and Greek characters. It was later revealed that Arrhidaeus was mentally and intellectually delayed, and Alexander has split personality, one's a timid one and another a mature, but cold one named Hephaestion, and her mother Olympias has other lovers and murdered a man rumored to be Alexander's real father in cold blood. Philip tried to send him to the school in Mieza where Aristotle is, but he refused, preferring to stay in Pella.