When the incense smoke rises straight and then bends, that's when you start counting. If the first sentence is dull, there's no need to go on until dawn.

• MuniraYour Majesty, I polished that censer three times myself yesterday. What bends isn't the smoke, it's the draft from the window gap.
  ZahiraThen the window gap must hate a dull story too.
• IskandarTonight's name is already written down. Only tell me the order.
  MuniraThe chancellor always brings up the ledger right to someone's face.