"Some family." He nods to himself for a minute, lost in thought. "Well, I say family. Friends, technically. Coworkers. When your job has you jumping round the galaxy twice a week it's a little difficult to maintain outside relations." Not that Daniel's ever tried. He can't even remember the names of the other people in his old apartment building. "Don't have any living family, so."

Another shrug. It's not lost on him that he's talking about this while in New York, not so terribly far away from one of his worst childhood memories. Yeah, he's going to avoid elaborating on that if he can.

So he levels on Seth, with his usual too-incisive, too-intense look of interest.

"And who'd you leave behind?"