For such a reserved and hands-off kind of guy, Riku needs these gestures of affection more than he lets on. She comes in like a blonde hurricane and sticks to him, and Riku palms the top of her head as he greets her in turn.

"Hi, Mary," he says, his voice soft, "Sorry I made you wait so long." Between the searching, then the mission at the lighthouse and the need to recover, he had to be away for a while.

"You doing alright?"