"I'd be really surprised if mind control was needed but am not intending to say 'by any means short of mind control' or something, if we have to use mind control to make it work we can do that." She can see Carmin's face in front of her going "wow! no! let's back up!" but she's not in fact going to retract that, not at all, not if this in fact helps Keltham think about the world as something he might want to live in. '
"I - told you the truth about how my sexuality works, except I think actually there's something about what you were doing which a Chelish person in your place would not have been doing which was in fact an important ingredient of it being good for me rather than just not hard for me to endure. And I do think that probably my not really having a sense of who I am as a person would play badly with belonging to someone else but that solves itself inside a year, I'm not expecting to need that long to figure out who I am as a person. - I want to travel the world. Read the histories in lots of different countries. Talk to people. Visit the Outer Planes too, talk to people there. Figure out which of them are - ways a Carissa might turn out - and what I want to do about that."