The post-it note Seth's been steadily shredding gets a brief look but Daniel says nothing. Maybe is hardly a set-in-stone guarantee, but it's also still rather soon since Seth's withdrawal scare. Putting some distance between himself and that unpleasant affair might be the first step to accepting that he doesn't need to be dependent.

"Not hopeless," he says with another, slightly more successful smile that he hopes comes off as supportive. "It might not feel like you're brave to have gone through what you did but that's the truth of it." He lays his hand on Seth's shoulder in a motion that can't seem to decide if it wants to be comforting or a display of manly camaraderie, so it simply rests there in confused indecision for a minute. "And I'll keep saying it until you to believe it."