"Your mother will have no doubt burned whatever ties you had even if you were," sounds like I don't give a fuck. What does he care how miserably unpopular Artemaeus may have been inside the Imperium?

"You will have spent enough time in someone's company to have blackmail, or to know their vices, or to remember the layout of the estate grounds regardless. That's what you're to include in this list."

He punctuates it by jabbing a finger at the paper.

"I want to know every detail you can remember about every one of these families your mother has been aligned with. Understood?"