Envoy to Klis: Violence Redeeming: Collected Short Stories 2009 - 2011 - Of Phantoms, Flights: A Tapestry of Twisted Threads in Folio

Klis would be their first failure and it would mark the end of their conquest. When the Mongol envoy entered into the city walls, he offered its citizens the same thing the Mongols offered every conquest - tribute or extermination. The city inhabitants would refuse the former to brave the latter and they would survive. The Mongol hordes once marched from the Far East into Europe. There, they encountered their first breaking point at the fortified city of Klis.