Ustad Kamran arrived, as he always did, precisely at the seventh hour of the day.
It was not a minute before, and never a minute after. In eleven years of tutoring Shehzade Ali al-Shirazi, the man had not once been late, had not once cancelled his lessons without three days prior notice which he delivered in writing, and had not once been caught off guard by anything Ali said in these eleven years. He took a particular professional pride in this and Ali was aware of it. Ali found it, if he was being honest with himself, a personal challenge.
