"I... don't suppose that it would help if I observed that one very normal way of solving this problem would be for you to hurt Carissa to her actual breaking point, so that you would subsequently know where that is. And that you are actually completely incapable of this right now. And that this indicates that you don't have a very urgent problem here."
"You've literally never tried to hurt her in any serious way. How do you know she's this easy to break? I guess I am, in some sense, offended on behalf of Carissa's Chelish 'dignity'," she uses the Baseline loanword that Keltham used before. "I don't suppose, though, that this is very much of an argument to you either. Is there anything a Lawful dath ilani would say about - just trying to do a thing, to see what happens, when it won't be a disaster for it to fail."