Were it so simple.

[If he had a pulse, you'd see a vein throbbing.]

No, I mean a young witch with delusions of grandeur - in the employ of the Church no less - and a boy who would seek to claim my power as his 'inheritance.'

[He still finds the idea of the Church employing a Witch to hunt him a direct mockery, since his wife was burned at the stake for being a witch.]