Some weight clenched in Daniel's chest grows horribly still at the same time that he stiffens, turning to face the other man sharply.
"How'd you know my name?" he asks quietly, rigidly, edging away. One hand rests on the P-90 in unspoken, glaring menace but he does not raise the weapon to fire.
And it's spoken with the air of, of familiarity, like they know each other beyond this shared situational misfortune. The extensive, horrible possibilities run circuits in Daniel's head, distressingly clear. A za'tarc, an assassin, a hallucination, oh god how much of this is real, there are far too many explanations and Daniel has no idea which one could -
Seth.
Daniel shuts his eyes. He is so stupid sometimes, truly. Seth. Common enough a Tau'ri name, probably some sort of private joke. He thought they'd killed that system lord, but evidently that would be too easy. Any one of his followers or another system lord could have found him and brought him to the sarcophagus for any number of reasons. It was here in plain sight and he didn't even see it.
"Setesh," Daniel hisses, and now he snaps the P-90 up to level it at the host's chest. "Isn't it. Where'd you get the host?"
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"How'd you know my name?" he asks quietly, rigidly, edging away. One hand rests on the P-90 in unspoken, glaring menace but he does not raise the weapon to fire.
And it's spoken with the air of, of familiarity, like they know each other beyond this shared situational misfortune. The extensive, horrible possibilities run circuits in Daniel's head, distressingly clear. A za'tarc, an assassin, a hallucination, oh god how much of this is real, there are far too many explanations and Daniel has no idea which one could -
Seth.
Daniel shuts his eyes. He is so stupid sometimes, truly. Seth. Common enough a Tau'ri name, probably some sort of private joke. He thought they'd killed that system lord, but evidently that would be too easy. Any one of his followers or another system lord could have found him and brought him to the sarcophagus for any number of reasons. It was here in plain sight and he didn't even see it.
"Setesh," Daniel hisses, and now he snaps the P-90 up to level it at the host's chest. "Isn't it. Where'd you get the host?"