"That'll never happen." He snaps out the words immediately, instinctively, dead weight drops of certitude. He means them. There isn't the remotest chance he'd let it.

And then he looks away, skewering Seth's wall with an uncomfortable, penetrating frown as he rubs at his arm with one hand in abrupt self-consciousness. He doesn't want to have overstepped some unstated boundary. Even after witnessing Seth's perception of his, as he said, 'lab rat' experience, Daniel knows he can't fully understand the depth of that experience. He can only conceptualize, and that's hard enough to process.