Julian's levity is welcome, and Aliyah takes the moment to butt her head against Daniel's shoulder by way of comfort.

"I've been trapped on other planets before," he offers, "but never, uh, not quite like this. There's no wormhole back, there's no ship to just - beam me out again. I'm stuck. Not much I can do with garbled Latin about that."

He returns the smile, though his is a shade more melancholic than he would like.

"Thank you," he says, and he means it. "And contrary to your subjective claim, there's nothing about you that I would classify as 'an ass'."