[Ren looks (faux) scandalised at that comment, which quickly subsides into excessive pouting. He takes the moment, though, to observe Riku's reaction to the ice slime - that doesn't look like a shiver in the sense of a natural response to cold. Hmm.

Something to put away for later. For now, he bends down to scoop up the ice slime and gently scolds it.]

If you freeze him without his permission, he's definitely not going to think you're cute, okay?

[The slime responds by breathing out more ice crystals, and Ren squeezes the bubble slime gently again. The bubbles float out into the freezing air, creating fragile, partially crystallised spheres that glitter briefly at their eye level before winking out as each one breaks.]

See, you can make pretty things too instead of being trouble.