Judging time when you were trying not to listen in on someone else's thoughts or feel what her body was doing wasn't easy, especially when you didn't have that much experience with the whole Star Trek thing mind sharing thing in the first place. Daniel couldn't avoid everything, or miss the faint grumbling and rambling Vala's mind did the entire time. The archaeologist counted a good three minutes out, give or take, because how long could a piss- bathroom break take? Although maybe he should add another minute just to be sure. You never could be too sure.

He cautiously settled back to how he was before. So far, so good, right? He only got the last part she was saying, something about killing him once she was free of him. "What?"

Daniel put on as much dignity as he thought he was capable of at the moment. It wasn't much. "Can we please get going?"