I mind that the bite is missing, but there's not much we can do about that now, can we? [He's joking (though it would have been nice to have a complete ice cream sandwich!) and it's a jest that reveals much about his personality recently: food is very, very important to him when he's hungry. More so than most normal people.

He supposes it wouldn't hurt to ask:] You're not sick or anything, right? And as long as I ignore the implied, indirect kiss that comes from eating a stranger's food, then I think I'm good. [How much this actually affects Ryan taking the treat from him is laughably, almost disconcertingly small. On both fronts.]