Xerxes and the Mistress

Xerxes was trying to negotiate something with his brother. A mistress pressures Xerxes really heavily to say, I want access to her and Xerxes knowing it probably isn't going to be for anything good. While all of that is going on, the royal guard at the command of a mistress has gone to their house and mutilated and maimed in ways that I will not describe. Even though it's a 2500 year old story, I still won't say it into a microphone for you here. It's horrible. And now he ends up giving into pressure from a mistress who assumes that it was this girl's mom all along who caused this problem.