"So you're saying you - dismantled the rifty support infrastructure," Daniel says in slow summary, mentally parsing it. He's not linking this back to Seth's original point, unless -

"You didn't kill anyone, did you?" He sounds more politely guarded than reproving, particularly since he knows full well that any sort of mass power struggle would have losses, it would have deaths, and sometimes those are unavoidable. "I wouldn't think any less of you over that, you realize that, right? I mean - I've killed people. I'm betting most of the rifties here have."