Daniel braces himself but is still completely unprepared for - well, it's difficult to classify, really. There's a brightness and an odd rushing, and he can feel something pulling out of him. He shoves down the urge to resist, trusting that Seth knows what he's doing. Whatever it is, it's taking place on some level he can't fully -

- and, woah, okay. The light fades and Daniel can more acutely conceptualize its absence now that it's no longer there. The two stagger apart from each other. Daniel has to give himself a little shake to refocus, reestablish, reassess. Someone just rifled through the abstracted energy in his subconscious. He needs a minute.

"Wow," he breathes after a few seconds. "That was - okay, then."

Tentatively, he shuts his eyes and tries to re-access the Ascended memories locked away in the farthest corners of his skull. Sure enough, he can still detect them - annoyingly out of reach, as always, but present and accounted for. Good.