"Ah, good man," he says, slapping the table with a hand. Ignatius is very tall and strong so it makes kind of an alarming noise. "I haven't got much against your old master, truly. She sounds like one hell of a brute."

Which is apparently a good thing, from the way he says it.

"But killing Winter royalty... you know that none of us can put up with that. It's not a good look." He's saying it almost conspiratorially, like sharing a trade secret between friends.