"As you wish, your Majesty." She's suddenly tired but she is NOT going to fall asleep. The last two times she fell asleep she 1) learned that she had offended the Queen and also the Grand High Priestess and also Contessa Lrilatha and also Gorthoklek and 2) woke to the news that Keltham had been having secret realizations for THREE HOURS and no one had thought to wake her about it. Clearly the thing to do is to NEVER SLEEP.

"It's cute that you think you get a choice."

"Some submissives cannot feel their encounter is complete unless they have received or given pleasure.  Are you one of those?"

Is the Queen hitting on her, some very stupid part of Carissa's brain asks very stupidly. 

The answer is YES because that's the answer that results in getting to have sex with the QUEEN says another very stupid part of Carissa's brain.

In fact it seems only stupid parts of Carissa's brain have showed up to work today because now there is one contributing that the Queen is SO PRETTY THE PRETTIEST

That literally wasn't the question, Carissa's brain. 

The answer is that, in general, no, Carissa's perfectly content to be hit until everyone's satisfied, but in this specific case, she'd have to live with LIFELONG REGRET ABOUT HAVING COME THAT CLOSE TO GETTING TO HAVE SEX WITH THE QUEEN. Apparently. 

Sex doesn't make Abrogail Thrune feel anywhere near as alive as when Carissa thought she was having her last thoughts, and Abrogail was reading and feeling it through Detections cast with the force of eighth-circle sorcery behind them.

But it's not like she won't do it, to perfect her work on Carissa like an artist-smith taking those extra minutes to polish a shield that really only needs to be hit.