Stice stuck to the window: skin against the occlusive seal
This sound and a feeling like the skin’ll give before the bind will, sure. Frozen stuck. And this here’s more skin than I care to say goodbye to, buddy-ruff. [...] This is some freakish occlusive seal. Glass doesn’t conduct heat like metal conducts heat.
Context
The fusion at full anatomical resolution — a contest between tissue and adhesion. Stice has already tested it: pulling gave "a feeling like the skin'll give before the bind will," and "this here's more skin than I care to say goodbye to." Hal diagnoses the mechanism like a trainer, distinguishing this "freakish occlusive seal" from the ordinary tongue-on-metal freeze because "glass doesn't conduct heat like metal conducts heat." Even a supernatural predicament gets worked as a problem of skin, bond, and thermal conduction — the body reasoned about as material.