Runark found Ria's reaction telling, of course. She had been frosty ever since they returned from Gaia Prime, but she hadn't been too open about how the reunion went. He immediately dropped the topic, remaining in silence as the two of them walked towards the launch hatch. Personally, he didn't entirely understand why this topic had become so sensitive to her, nor did he fully understand what she was feeling.
Her Martial Mind was far more powerful than his, so he couldn't even read her mind with his mind sense, making her much more inscrutable to him than most people were.
Was it because she was going through her rebellious phase?
She was technically much younger than him because he had gone through the manifold just to barely exist in the same Realm as her, but because he hadn't physiologically aged as much.
