Okay, so that certainly casts things in an entirely new light. And here he'd been concerned over how poorly Seth seemed to be handling it - being on a different plane doesn't cancel out who he's friends with and it never did - but he'd always been terrible at interpreting certain signals. Signals like - this, for example. It genuinely never occurred to him that this could be a thing. That muddies up the proverbial waters considerably, and it doesn't help that Daniel has no interest in - in reciprocating in that way. It goes beyond simply being mechanically unable to in this stage. It's not mutual; there's nothing he can do to change that or make it any easier to swallow.

If he could simulate sigh he would have, but as it is his specter simply stands there.

"Well," he says after a lengthy pause. "That's news."