Insults
Eltanin took a deep breath. He looked at his goblet and gulped the entire wine down his throat in one go. Stunned, he didn't know what to reply for a moment. He looked at Rigel for help. The thing was that if he blatantly refused, he was sure Eridani's ego would hurt to the level that he might provoke other kings against him.
Rigel simply shrugged as if telling him that this is your shit man! If he intervened, then he was sure that Eridani would push his daughter on him. And Lerna was one ferocious and jealous she-wolf. He didn't know what she would do to Eri if this word even became popular that Rigel is considering marrying Eri. Not only that, his father was waiting for an opportunity. He would marry Rigel to a cow rather than Lerna.