Cortez and Aquiarre were getting along well, and Cortez decided to press a little to see if he could weasel a little more out of the good Commodore. He did like her, she was a rather striking figure and good conversation, but business was business. Subtly dropping the proposal in their conversation he followed it up with a slightly off-color joke, which unknowingly implied Antony, and possibly his mother, had... relations with a xenos.