Well she'd screwed up royally there, she thought. If Daniel could see her face then her expression was nothing short of a kicked puppy. There was a reason Vala didn't turn around.

"Right. Time alone. I can see that," she conceded reluctantly with a shrug and a head tilt. Vala narrowed her eyes to look up and down the corridor outside the lab, she had no idea where she was actually going to go, but it wouldn't hurt to do some more scouting around, she supposed.

"Oh!" Vala suddenly added brightly. "One more question. How much time... roughly?"