It's not a perfect reassurance, he knows, but he doesn't know how much or little blame Johnny will yoke over himself regardless of what Daniel says.

"The Rift, I think?" he offers, though he honestly can't be altogether certain of that. Death, when Ascension is involved, is a slow and disorienting thing, painful to the point where the memories become utterly distorted, and he hadn't been in a form that was capable of analyzing what had actually happened to him at the time. "It's the only explanation that really makes sense."