“Parviz continued, “Do you even know why we refer to it as toman?”

“No, never thought about it, why?” Hooman replied with as much spirit as his mask could muster.

“Well, it’s from the Mongolian word tümen, which means ‘unit of ten thousand.’” He gritted his teeth, agitating Hooman more than hearing about his son getting caught and arrested. Money was his only real love. “That terror, Genghis Khan, still lives with us to this day.”