"Oh," she says quietly. "Oh, I didn't realize how that'd be tied up with - should I, should I try to argue with you or should I just listen -"

At some point Carissa's going to have to stop having her brain just flail in panic internally and force it to produce some outputs. Outputs. Those. What. Good girlfriend. What does a good girlfriend say to that. But actually what - if she were a paladin she's not sure she could figure out what to say to that -

"Oh," she says quietly. "Oh, I didn't realize how that'd be tied up with - should I, should I try to argue with you or should I just listen -"

At some point Carissa's going to have to stop having her brain just flail in panic internally and force it to produce some outputs. Outputs. Those. What. Good girlfriend. What does a good girlfriend say to that. But actually what - if she were a paladin she's not sure she could figure out what to say to that -

She is not at all, she has built a firm wall internally against, parsing any of what Keltham is saying as real sympathy for the real Carissa, who he would hate, if he knew. Thinking about that is the road to feelings about that and the literal only advantage of feelings about that are that Abrogail would like them. The rest of the time, worse than useless. 

Good girlfriend. What do good girlfriends say, about these words that do not mean anything to them.

"Oh," she says quietly. "Oh, I didn't realize how that'd be tied up with - should I, should I try to argue with you or should I just listen -"