So his dialling was incomplete. Shame he doesn't actually know what was missing. He's going to assume the DHD means the pedestal thing. He doesn't know what exactly "not common" means. He doesn't know how many gates there are. There's quite a lot of things he doesn't actually know. Given how high security this place is, even if there were plenty of gates and DHDs (come to think of it, he hadn't actually seen one in the gateroom here), they'd probably all be locked up tight. No way for Seth to have familiarity even if he was from this Earth.
The way O'Neill approaches this seems very familiar. It reminds him of how Gabe questions him, actually. With very practiced casualness, as if to put him on his ease, yet still going for the difficult questions and the veiled accusations.
It's probably a good thing, actually. Seth responds better to that than to bullheaded militarianism. Though O'Neill doesn't have that same performative flair that Gabe does, which, is probably also a good thing.
"Daniel explained it to me. I can't fight, so I was supposed to dial while he provided a distraction and defended the gate," Seth explains, having to pause his eating to get the right words out. "He wrote the symbols down on a piece of paper, I showed it to -- that guy who brought us back." Was that Reynolds? Seth hadn't been conscious enough to read his nametag. "And then I was supposed to wait for him, for Daniel, until he sent... something, so that we could go through."
He frowns in concentration. The tricky thing of having to explain all of this is having to filter out all the dead bodies and the explosions and the terror. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out the crumpled piece of paper, putting it on the table. Reynolds had seemed entirely uninterested in it, so Seth had kept it. "Only it didn't work, I punched in all the seven symbols and nothing happened."
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The way O'Neill approaches this seems very familiar. It reminds him of how Gabe questions him, actually. With very practiced casualness, as if to put him on his ease, yet still going for the difficult questions and the veiled accusations.
It's probably a good thing, actually. Seth responds better to that than to bullheaded militarianism. Though O'Neill doesn't have that same performative flair that Gabe does, which, is probably also a good thing.
"Daniel explained it to me. I can't fight, so I was supposed to dial while he provided a distraction and defended the gate," Seth explains, having to pause his eating to get the right words out. "He wrote the symbols down on a piece of paper, I showed it to -- that guy who brought us back." Was that Reynolds? Seth hadn't been conscious enough to read his nametag. "And then I was supposed to wait for him, for Daniel, until he sent... something, so that we could go through."
He frowns in concentration. The tricky thing of having to explain all of this is having to filter out all the dead bodies and the explosions and the terror. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out the crumpled piece of paper, putting it on the table. Reynolds had seemed entirely uninterested in it, so Seth had kept it. "Only it didn't work, I punched in all the seven symbols and nothing happened."