[Who knows, right? It's certainly a future she'd prefer to think would happen, under the circumstances. There's always a chance it still could have gone bad, but...

No time for that now, huh? Not when there's a better day to be had.

Shepard grins, a little shake of her chest in a chuckle.]

Tell you what. Lemme get Alex on lock, maybe literally, we'll see what happens. If he's a good boy he can even come with us. If not, we'll figure something else out. Kay?

[Just y'know, a fun joke about imprisoning a man. It's fine. This is fine.]