The Grand Vizier is graciously having his breakfast while testing his twenty plus years old son, Candarli Ibrahim, reading out and memorizing a chapter of the Quran when the eunuch broke the atmosphere hurrying in panting up and down, totally unlike the usual standard set for a servant of the imperial house.
The Grand Vizier Candarli Halil Pasha gave this little eunuch a disgruntled look as he wiped his mouth frowning with a piece of dampened perfumed hanker chief, leaned back on the cushion and ordered. "After this go take ten…no, fifteen slashes of whips from your discipline master, now, what is the rush?"
The little Eunuch gulped and passed this box containing the letter to the Grand Vizier's Janissary guard and replied with a trembling voice. "E…Emergency military message, from Rumelia, honourable Grand Vizier."
"Read." The Grand Vizier ordered the Kâtib scribe.
