"Oh. Oh, wow. That...can't have been easy for you." Whoops.

Daniel considers himself lucky. At least the people he left behind might be able to eventually figure out what happened to him and then do everything in their power to get him back. But it's occurred to him that he might the only one on that front.

"I'm sorry," he says, and he means it. If there's anything to be said about Daniel inadvertently bringing up sensitive issues, it's that he does it far too often and knows it.