"So, as near as I can tell, the three obvious pathways by which Carissa could end up being taken from me, are, one, that the Queen is going to be a vastly better sadist, two, that Carissa has a sex problem which I'm not going to go into if it's not already in her file but the Queen is going to have vastly more expensive sex toys, three, that the Queen is the other person who could plausibly have absolute-power over Carissa."
"My Carissamodel says that it is basically not possible to steal Carissa from me by pathway two - that there's no realistic amount of pleasure you can get from sex toys and without dangerous drugs that you can use to steal a Carissa from a Keltham. Being much better at hurting her than I am, and maybe looking like the Queen has more real power over her than I do, both seem like actual problems."
"These problems could plausibly be solved by mature reasonable adults with five minutes of negotations. They are much bigger problems if what we're fighting is a 'trope' that requires the Queen to try to steal Carissa from me and make concerning progress on it, before the Queen gets revealed as a traitor or the matter gets resolved with an amicable harem expansion."