Firefly Glen Heat Waves

"Oh, um..." The answer was maybe a little more personal than Ruenna had really intended on getting with an acquaintance, but didn't Coriander deserve to know, if he meant to make the journey with her? 

"There is a man there named Germanicus, and he intends to raise a military outpost. I.. um.. offered myself as a wife to him, but he told me he needed to think about it before he answered." Ruenna shifted her gaze away in an attempt to conceal her mortification.  "I mean to ask him for his answer." Ruenna expected that if a man had to be asked twice, that was probably an answer in and of itself. She was not hopeful about the likelihood of him coming around.