"Once I found him, yeah," Michael says, like he has a right to be irritable about the fact that he'd taken so long to find Alex, but he's beaming. "And yeah, we're going back to Kagura tonight to celebrate," he adds, his smile only getting bigger.

He snorts, and it hadn't been right where the fish men were, but it felt pretty close. "We were on the pier overlooking all the fish goo, but yeah. His prosthetic was rough, I was panicked, but I'd been planning to ask him for months. I wasn't gonna let fish things ruin that."