"I'd need some notion of the maximum that could possibly be worth.  It's considered ill practice where I come from to take on debts with no legible caps on their objective magnitude, unless you're creating a child in which case you don't have a choice and somebody's got to do that sometimes."

"Also and furthermore, I mean, you sort of are the person who gets to rent Carissa in the first place, here?  And the sexy-price that was suggested to me by Isidre did not strike me as being in the range of what that is actually worth to you, the value you gain from it, given that it's worth this much of your time at all, and given what I expect your finances are like."

"I am doing this because it will, supposedly, I hope, be good for Carissa, because I think it will impress my girlfriend, and because I want fewer 'tropes' messing with me.  And since that's an adequate reason for me to do it, and this is all a sex thing in the first place, and we are all hopefully friends here, and also probably really because I am still thinking of this as somebody else having sex with Carissa only it has to be done in a way that makes my brain shut up about it -"

"For all of those reasons, I haven't asked you for anything like what the Queen of Cheliax can afford to pay for anything that's worth her time at all, or asked you to explicitly owe me a favor afterwards."

"...uh, I hope we're not starting to have a real conflict here, where we're contesting negotiating abilities or something.  If we're starting to have a real conflict that calls into question who gets to have Carissa, or whether this agreement takes place at all, then it should happen in front of Carissa for 'trope' reasons."  And Lrilatha and Isidre should be there.

"Lady, I mean, you sort of are the person who gets to rent Carissa in the first place, here?  And the sexy-price that was suggested to me by Isidre did not strike me as being in the range of what that is actually worth to you, the value you gain from it, given that it's worth this much of your time at all, and given what I expect your finances are like."

"I am doing this because it will, supposedly, I hope, be good for Carissa, because I think it will impress my girlfriend, and because I want fewer 'tropes' messing with me.  And since that's an adequate reason for me to do it, and this is all a sex thing in the first place, and we are all hopefully friends here, and also probably really because I am still thinking of this as somebody else having sex with Carissa only it has to be done in a way that makes my brain shut up about it -"

"For all of those reasons, I haven't asked you for anything like what the Queen of Cheliax can afford to pay for anything that's worth her time at all, or asked you to explicitly owe me a favor afterwards."

"...uh, I hope we're not starting to have a real conflict here, where we're contesting negotiating abilities or something.  If we're starting to have a real conflict that calls into question who gets to have Carissa, or whether this agreement takes place at all, then it should happen in front of Carissa for 'trope' reasons."  And Lrilatha and Isidre should be there.

"Lady, I mean, you sort of are the person who gets to rent Carissa in the first place, here?  And the sexy-price that was suggested to me by Isidre did not strike me as being in the range of what that is actually worth to you - the value you gain from it - given that it's worth this much of your time at all, and given what I expect your finances are like."

"I am doing this because it will, supposedly, I hope, be good for Carissa, because I think it will impress my girlfriend, and because I want fewer 'tropes' messing with me.  And since that's an adequate reason for me to do it, and this is all a sex thing in the first place, and we are all hopefully friends here, and also probably really because I am still thinking of this as somebody else having sex with Carissa only it has to be done in a way that makes my brain shut up about it -"

"For all of those reasons, I haven't asked you for anything like what the Queen of Cheliax can afford to pay for anything that's worth her time at all, or asked you to explicitly owe me a favor afterwards."

"...uh, I hope we're not starting to have a real conflict here, where we're contesting negotiating abilities or something.  If we're starting to have a real conflict that calls into question who gets to have Carissa, or whether this agreement takes place at all, then it should happen in front of Carissa for 'trope' reasons."  And Lrilatha and Isidre should be there.

"Lady, I mean, you sort of are the person who gets to rent Carissa in the first place, here?  And the sexy-price that was suggested to me by Isidre did not strike me as being in the range of what that is actually worth to you - the value you gain from it - given that it's worth this much of your time at all, and given what I expect your finances are like."

"I am doing this because it will, supposedly, I hope, be good for Carissa, because I think it will impress my girlfriend, and because I want fewer 'tropes' messing with me.  And since that's an adequate reason for me to do it, and this is all a sex thing in the first place, and we are all hopefully friends here.  And also probably really because I am still thinking of this as somebody else having sex with Carissa only it has to be done in a way that makes my brain shut up about it -"

"For all of those reasons, I haven't asked you for anything like what the Queen of Cheliax can afford to pay for anything that's worth her time at all, or asked you to explicitly owe me a favor afterwards."

"...uh, I hope we're not starting to have a real conflict here, where we're contesting negotiating abilities or something.  If we're starting to have a real conflict that calls into question who gets to have Carissa, or whether this agreement takes place at all, then it should happen in front of Carissa for 'trope' reasons."  And Lrilatha and Isidre should be there.

"Lady, I mean, you sort of are the person who gets to rent Carissa in the first place, here?  And the sexy-price that was suggested to me by Isidre did not strike me as being in the range of what that is actually worth to you - the value you gain from it - given that it's worth this much of your time at all, and given what I expect your finances are like."

"I am doing this because it will, supposedly, I hope, be good for Carissa, because I think it will impress my girlfriend, and because I want fewer 'tropes' messing with me.  And since that's an adequate reason for me to do it, and this is all a sex thing in the first place, and we are all hopefully friends here, and also probably really because I am still thinking of this as somebody else having sex with Carissa only it has to be done in a way that makes my brain shut up about it -"

"For all of those reasons, I haven't asked you for anything like what the Queen of Cheliax can afford to pay for anything that's worth her time at all, or asked you to explicitly owe me a favor afterwards."

"...uh, I hope we're not starting to have a real conflict here, where we're contesting negotiating abilities or something.  If we're starting to have a real conflict that calls into question who gets to have Carissa, or whether this agreement takes place at all, then it should happen in front of Carissa for 'trope' reasons."  And Lrilatha and Isidre should be there.