Daniel's instincts for self-preservation might be nigh nonexistent but his analytical intuitions are, as always, the first thing to load on his presets. The unexpected someone has set everything on alert including, most distractingly, Daniel's usually latent post-Ascension faculties.
And then he just casually - shifts reality, perfectly cheerful about it, seemingly unhostile. But there's also the vaguely charged air surrounding him, the same sort of heavy jangling presence that Daniel once picked up on the man that he would eventually learn (he realizes with no small amount of distress) was the real, honest-to-literal-god Lucifer. And while Seth seems to be perfectly at ease with this man, Daniel is - not. There are too many similarities here, too much that goes in chilling parallel with what Daniel picked up off the Devil. The actual real Devil.
He tenses, on sharp alert for once, and does the first thing he can think of, which is throw up - as silly as it sounds - a linguistic defense.
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And then he just casually - shifts reality, perfectly cheerful about it, seemingly unhostile. But there's also the vaguely charged air surrounding him, the same sort of heavy jangling presence that Daniel once picked up on the man that he would eventually learn (he realizes with no small amount of distress) was the real, honest-to-literal-god Lucifer. And while Seth seems to be perfectly at ease with this man, Daniel is - not. There are too many similarities here, too much that goes in chilling parallel with what Daniel picked up off the Devil. The actual real Devil.
He tenses, on sharp alert for once, and does the first thing he can think of, which is throw up - as silly as it sounds - a linguistic defense.
"אתה כוכב הבוקר הֵילֵל?," he asks slowly, shoulders taut.