Before I go running from the room, screaming, maybe a little clarification is in order?

The very deep-seated fear of commitment that has been a somewhat defining feature in you since you had your first one night stand screamed at you to run and hide from the very clingy Raxasian. She was suddenly a smothering presence to you and part of you was wondering if you could drop her off on a random world and not feel bad about it later. It was very tempting, really. She'd probably be fine, right? Relatively, anyway. She'd be fine...probably.

You manage to rein in that initial burst of holy-shit-what-the-fuck panic that grips you and take a deep breath as you decide that you should maybe get more information out of Sera while she's keen to share it. Because, even if you have no intention of fighting for anybody's hand if you can help it, you were still stuck with the Raxasian woman for awhile and knowing just who or what was after her could help you out. Especially if its some guy who wants to marry her and stick it to her bad enough to send a band of armed thugs after her like he had.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Sera. Maybe slow down a bit here. Uh, that's a whole fuckin' lot you're shovelin' onto me at once here.", you say as you try your damndest to push her away from you as she holds you fast in her embrace, "Uh, who is it that, um, I'm s'posed to be fightin' for hands or whatever?"

"Oh, jussst the male my father wissshed me to marry. Lord Sssach'arilack Karisss'ch'kala-", she says and you wave off that bit.

"Yeah, yeah. Lord Sack. Got it, keep goin'.", you hurry along.

"Yesss. He isss a dissstant cousssin thriccce removed and a minor noble becaussse of that relation. He isss also a cruel, callousss and cold individual.", she says and you think he must really be an ass if Sera is the one calling him cold and callous when she'd been such a bitch before now, "He isss alssso painfully dull and ugly and nearly twiccce my age. I did not wisssh to marry him, but my father wasss being insssissstent becaussse no other sssuitor ssseemed to remain after a sssingle meeting. I alwaysss wondered about that. I believe Lord Sssach threatened them."

You think it's more due to Sera's bitchy attitude to people who haven't given her a good fucking, but you hold your tongue about that as she continues.

"I begged my father not to make me marry him, but he would not lisssten! Ssso I took matters into my own handsss and ran away after trading some old jewelry to a off-worlder trader for passssage on hisss ship. He wasss to take me to a more civilized world, but we were attacked by the men hired to hunt me down and had to ssstop on that horrid Junk Moon inssstead.", she continued and then looked up at you with bright eyes, "And that isss where we met, asss you well know, and our ssstory beginsss."

"R-right. Uh, look, Sera, 'bout that, I think we should...", you start to say, but Sera interrupts you with a long suffering sigh and a shake of her head.

"I sssimply ssstill cannot believe my father could not sssee that Lord Sssach wasss sssimply after the prestige and fortune that comesss with marrying into asss noble and wealthy a family asss our own.", she stated with a little pout on her lips, "How dare that old lac'higcha think he can marry hisss way into my family'sss richesss!"

...Did she say fortune, wealthy and riches?

"Yeah...yeah, how dare he...uh, when you say riches, you mean...", you say, your fear of commitment and clingy women suddenly being overshadowed by your monetary greed.

"Oh, my family isss the richessst on the world of Raxas. All trade isss conducted through our company. Besssidesss that, my family'sss bloodline tracesss back to the old royal line and ssso we possssessss much influence on how the government isss run.", she said as she snuggled against you again, "It would not be an exaggeration to sssay that anybody who married into my family would be rich beyond their wildessst dreamsss. Could you imagine sssomebody marrying for sssuch a reason? It isss dessspicable."

"Yeah. Really. A real dick move.", you say idly in agreement, even as the phrase "rich beyond their wildest dreams" floats through your mind again and again.

...you're not really considering this, are you? No, of course you're not. Surely you're not willing to play along with this potential suitor and dueling for Sera's hand thing just at the chance of getting a huge payday...a payday beyond your wildest dreams...