Well, fair enough. Daniel's not sure he'd believe it either.

"No, I - " Hastily, he plunges into clarifications. "I've been here for a while. In Manhattan?" He grapples to retrieve a timeline, but no unit of time measurement immediately or conveniently presents itself, so he slides past specifics and heads right to his next point. "It's kind of a long story."

Understatement of the - whatever time constraint is most appropriate. Daniel's frankly not sure anymore. It's a little worrying.

"I'm not, ah," he says, holding up a hand as if for inspection, " - human at the moment, so I'm sorry, but uh, no, I, I don't recognize you."