Carissa should feel incredibly embarrassed about that and very worried about the first impression she is leaving her new advisor in her descent into darkness but instead of this, she doesn't.

"You're very good.

- you know what you should do, if you don't mind, is, you should come up with a description of what's different between fragile Carissa and normal Carissa, in case mine isn't very satisfactory once I am recovered and try to come up with one."

"Are you also giving me a small adorable puzzle to keep my mind occupied and not talking to you, by any chance?"

"No! If you want to talk to me you can talk to me! Just, I said that, and then I thought, I think normally I wouldn't say that, and then I decided not to try to notice all the differences. But you could, if you wanted. I think the point of all this is that you get to figure out exactly how you like your Carissa and what to do to her to get that."

"I'll go take some notes, then."  In Baseline.

Keltham gets the scrapbook he's been using and brings it into bed.

Note 1:  Carissa seems a whole lot more capable of being happy, somehow, hopefully this is something that doesn't wear off completely or takes a while to do so.

Note 2:  Fragile Carissa knows that she is fragile and not constantly proclaiming her invincibility, which wouldn't be a good look on her all the time, but it is nice to know that she has an internal sensor for it and yes fine it's cute Keltham will write that.

Note 3:  She's like a tiny cute Pet Animal of some kind, which you wouldn't want to take care of always, but might want to take care of on correspondingly rare occasions like this one.

She is so curious but she won't peek! 

"You're allowed to know eventually, you just have to be in rough equilibrium before you see.  I'm not going to go overwrite your self-model while it's unusually fragile and maybe also changing, if I guessed anything on here wrong."

"Yeah, that makes sense and sounds right." It's not what Abrogail did, at all, but then Abrogail was trying to build Carissa a new way on purpose; Keltham doesn't know what he's doing and might build her a worse way accidentally, and is being appropriately cautious, given that.

Maybe they can kiss some more until the priest gets here.

Knock knock, quite gently.

Answer answer.

Keltham is trying to ignore the very strong eroLARP character warning signals he is getting from how hot this priestess is, and that would be easier if Carissa hadn't just leveled from sex.

Yes, Carissa is over there in the bed.  You can tell which object Keltham is pointing to, it's the adorable one.

This is probably more of a two-person talk than a three-person talk.

Understood.  Please note that Carissa is not to have sex without his approval.

Does she really give off that vibe?

Why trust what you can just as easily verify?

Keltham departs.

Carissa will stop being quite so flopped. "High Priestess."

"Chosen of Asmodeus.  You have permission to fall back down into the bed."

- okay, well, she'll take that. Flop.

"I have been advised that I am not able to judge my readiness for duty right now. By several people. I want to encourage Keltham to have sex with me and I want to check whether that would be a bad idea. Or if there's some other reason to tell him it's a bad idea, I guess."

Carissa Sevar is, to an experienced eye, even more fragile than she looks to Keltham.  To an Asmodean eye it would be contemptible, if you didn't know that this is what she is like only a few hours after finishing up a date with Abrogail Thrune that took her to fourth circle.

In fact, the Queen's brief said that the part that put Carissa up to fourth circle was just the foreplay, and Carissa's alignment aura is now noticeably slightly stronger than when that foreplay completed.  And here she is using words and everything!

So, her readiness for sexual operations?  To Jacint's eye, Carissa is being very honest, very vulnerable, looks very relaxed and happy, obviously has no reserves left to deal with anything going even slightly wrong, and is unlikely to be able to run much in the way of deceptions on Keltham.  Jacint could probably break Carissa with a few words, right now, or simply by ceasing to guard her own words much... if Jacint felt like simultaneously pissing off Abrogail Thrune for ruining her latest masterpiece while it was recovering into its new shape, and also pissing off Aspexia Rugatonn, and also pissing off Asmodeus.

If Carissa were at all considering having normal sex with a normal person, the answer would clearly be no.

And then Carissa would need to be given something else to occupy herself, to prevent her from becoming bored and then trying to put herself back together faster or in interesting new ways.

"I estimate it will probably be safe for you with Keltham," Jacint says, "and safe for him spiritually, if I instruct him to back off or stop if you seem to be in increasing distress, and make it clear that he is to consider that advice from myself that he should indeed follow, rather than being a request from you that he is to refer back to only his own desires.  You will not be able to deceive him about much, if anything, but he has already been instructed not to pester you with questions and to back off there as well."

"Yes. He's been good about that and I will tell him I'm not ready - and probably burst into tears - if he starts being pushy." She makes a little bit of a face about her own patheticness. 

"It would be a lovely thing to see, but he is not ready and this is not the time for it either."

- nod. "Thank you. I'll come see you tomorrow, probably, to discuss more."

"As Asmodeus wills.  Literally and specifically wills, in this case, since that was your decision."

Jacint departs.

"Upshot?"

"Yes, but back off if Carissa seems to be in increasing distress.  That's not a request from Carissa that you should refer back to your own will and wants, that's advice from me.  Which you should ignore only if you have decided to break your possession.  For which this would also be not a good time if you wanted that to have pleasing results later."

You could have just said... never mind.

"Understood."

"Pain, probably in very small amounts by her standards: good, neutral, bad?"

"Neutral, for her, in those very small amounts.  I suppose positive if you are enjoying yourself in it and she knows that."