"What? No!" the alien swiveled his head back around to regard her, the startled look to his face matching up with his tone. "That thing couldn't hurt me! It just... put a little crack in the ice, is all. I can walk just fine!" Sort of. He was trying to avoid exacerbating it until he was sure he had a way to reconstitute his skin, which was going to be quite a process given how there didn't seem to be much fresh water just pooling or flowing through the planet.

Either way, now that his precious pride was on the line, the alien was busy unfolding his legs and hoisting himself to his feet.