"I guess you're sort of between stages," he offers, head to one side. "You didn't really die in the conventional sense either."

While he doesn't want spontaneous, poorly-defined death to be the Rift's upsetting new trend, it bodes well in terms of the absence of any true permanence.

"I'm still not quite sure how to descend from being like this," Daniel admits, mouth twisting down again. "I've figured out how to manifest, even communicate but, ah, I'm not sure that for you, it's quite the same thing."