Well, he's sort of my student. For magic stuff. Not the practicalities, since he's got all the mystical ability of a teapot, but the history and stuff. As much as is safe knowing, any how.

Seedy-looking men, huh? With parcels. Yeah, really not liking where this is going. If I was to dig up something of Farouk's, would you mind giving me a reading as to what he's been up to for the past few months? If that's all right?