"Too much to ask?" he said incredulously. "You've never..." He cut himself off. "Okay, we've both got a lot of talking to do, but this isn't the place to do it, and doing it while we're angry at each other isn't going to help us figure out how to fix our problems. Right?"<br/><br/>He took a deep breath. "I want this marriage to work. We'll have a long talk later. Maybe not tonight. But right now, we need to finish what we came here for, okay?" He took a deep breath and looked up at the remaining slaves on the orbitals. "While the giantess looks interesting, her control only seems to last either for a short time or a short distance, and I think she might be too much of a risk." He shifted his gaze, and continued, "I've heard stories of lamia eating their mates, so that's out." He looked up at Siena. "So the Catkin up there is the only choice. Can we agree on that for the moment?"