"Tempting, but no," he answers a little regretfully. It's only noon, which today is far too early for Daniel to start drinking anything alcoholic. "I'll take the coffee offer solo if that's on the table."

The exhausting nature of the conversation has already begun to bleed into the downward slope of his shoulders and the rub of a hand over eyes for the umpteenth time. He'll take the flimsy excuse for a subject change since Seth seems to have reached his limit on how much of that he's willing to discuss. Daniel can't blame him.