He wants payback? I can do that. I bite his lip hard, not quite hard enough to break skin though; I don't want the pepper prank to do actual lasting damage, so the capsaicin needs to not get under the skin. I pull back a bit, bringing the ice cube up to the meeting between our mouths, and wedge it into his with a forceful thumb. He has to manage not choking on it, and I'll kiss him blind while he juggles that task, chasing the ice with my tongue, hot following cold.

He's probably still too peppered to be able to tell how much hotter my body temperature runs than a normal humanlike's; we'll have to make sure he notices, if there's a next time. The touch of my tongue is enough to speed the melt of the ice, but I'm not focused on that so much as the taste of Marvelous's mouth, under the taste of my cooking and the pepper, which I only vaguely notice. Spice - and heat - mean something different to me than they do to most humanlikes.