He didn't notice he was starting to absently pick at the stitches on his forehead until he heard someone come in. Daniel guiltily dropped his hand. Then he remembered where he was. No Janet. He wasn't about to hear it from her. Straightening up, he looked over.

Vala. So she hadn't told him to go shove it. Although she hadn't responded either. Not that she needed to. The frosty silence said it all. Daniel was on the verge of politely inviting her in when he found he didn't have to. There wasn't any point. She invited herself in, roamed the room like a cat. Daniel watched nervously as she began to pick up and poke at several artifacts, but she didn't break anything so far. And after he'd effectively stolen from her and accused her of being a thief, Daniel was just going to have to suck it up and put up with her handling his artifacts. Just for today.

Finally she wandered over to him and smiled at him. Wasn't she pissed at him? She barely glanced at the body, and unlike some people so far, didn't seem bothered by it. She sat next to it like it was nothing more than a bizarre paper weight. Vala, he noticed, hadn't wasted any time altering her plant suit.

"Yeah, well you know me and friends." Daniel said and wished he could take it back. He was just hitting every single sore point he could today. If only he could talk about the alien or the natural mummification on it. Something he knew how to deal with. Daniel wasn't right all the time, but he didn't foot-in-mouth himself this badly often.

He licked his lips. There was a white elephant in the room, and that was his screw up. Putting down his notes, Daniel walked past the damaged Goa'uld sarcophagus and went to the table with the kara-kesh and healing devices. He picked hers up. It looked similar enough to the one on Taleen, but if you looked closely, you could see the engravings were slightly different. Doubled, where the other had single carvings. He should have known this. Daniel returned with the device and held it out.

"I think I owe you an apology."