He should probably let her take the hot chocolate, in that case, but he definitely does not. Conveniently that means he's too busy struggling to keep all the liquid inside of the cup when she gets him in the shoulder to get too weird about being touched.

And then Lev is complaining, which is extremely cute. He fights the urge to grin valiantly. "Um, probably?" It's not much of an apology, given that he sounds pretty relieved about it. Wrinkles mean that his fingers can't be frozen at all anymore, right? Nico glances to Abby to see if she agrees even as he sidles up to Lev's side and peers down at them, still hanging onto the mug of hot cocoa. "Let me see. Are they back to the regular color?" That's what she'd said to look for on the Fluid!