He makes a poorly-executed, horrendously impractical abortive movement, as if to seize her arm and prevent its vector of motion about ten seconds after the fact.

"Might it be more prudent to forestall your proclivity for self-experimentation given your current condition," he says icily, delivering a significant, sidelong look in her general direction. "The molecular air density seemed slightly increased in addition to significantly cooler in what may have potentially been an adiabatic cooling process and therefore I advise," he continues, his pitch rising in harmony to his escalating exasperation, "that you do not touch it."