"You make a solid and potentially concerning point."
"But if she is not - manifesting 'tropes', as you put it - then I would have actually liked to see - a resolution where the Queen has a few hours of fun and Carissa has some fun and you are cheerful about that and not, the case where, once again, the Queen's advisors just shout her down and tell her to get on with her job and go sleep with somebody else she isn't really attracted to. People who are innately Evil cannot, must not, try to be too Good, it isn't good for them."
"I must say that - my loyalty to the Queen - makes me wonder if the correct course is not simply to say all these things to the Queen herself. Withholding information from her would usually be considered an act of disloyalty, depending on the stakes."