"My sexuality does not seem basically opposed to renting Carissa out to a woman I know, given sufficiently favorable conditions. It is not happy with strangers. I haven't asked my sexuality about men because I don't, currently, really know any Chelish men; prior 'gendertropes' suggest higher resistance but I haven't been able to ask myself."
"I think the three main conditions, here, are, one, getting to know the Queen of Cheliax like at all, two, figuring out whether Carissa is all right with this, in a way that doesn't just trigger 'hey you can run a sword through me and this isn't even a sword so I'll be fine', and three is, uh, complicated. Any thoughts about one or two before we tackle that. I don't get the impression that I can just ask Carissa if she's fine with being rented, or can I?"
Keltham's thought processes are wordlessly trying and wordlessly rejecting sort-of pre-thoughts about ways he could put his unspoken third want into words; it's not easy to read.