"I wanted to get off base," just to get that out of the way here. But he would've been just as happy, if not happier, continuing work on the Taleen dig artifacts. "Not... this." Because getting dragged here, getting his foot stepped on, and nearly getting jailed along with Vala was his idea of fun.
Daniel's face had gone from wounded pride to offended, with a healthy dose of indignant to round it out. If he wanted to hear this kind of sarcasm and patronization, he'd go hang out with SG-3, or better yet, annoy Jack into one of his pissier moods. He folded his arms. Keeping his mouth shut on everything wrong with the statues, much less the park's accuracy, was, in his mind, about as good as accepting it as is.
The archaeologist's jaw worked as he looked at the Apophis statue. It was a visible effort on his part not to say anything about the fact it was carrying a snake entwined in an olive branch, as if he was trying to channel Athena. "Fine. Why don't you lead the way?"
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Daniel's face had gone from wounded pride to offended, with a healthy dose of indignant to round it out. If he wanted to hear this kind of sarcasm and patronization, he'd go hang out with SG-3, or better yet, annoy Jack into one of his pissier moods. He folded his arms. Keeping his mouth shut on everything wrong with the statues, much less the park's accuracy, was, in his mind, about as good as accepting it as is.
The archaeologist's jaw worked as he looked at the Apophis statue. It was a visible effort on his part not to say anything about the fact it was carrying a snake entwined in an olive branch, as if he was trying to channel Athena. "Fine. Why don't you lead the way?"