Blink. Blink.

"What was that?" Vala demanded. Instead of standing in the village with the team, she found herself inside somewhere, Daniel the only other person in the room. Automatically she could tell they were in an Ori ship by the design and her first guess was it was the one at the planet she had just been on. Well, possibly still was.

Vala turned to look at Daniel's far-off, grim face when he answered her question.

"Adria," he growled, his voice low. Vala stared at him. Not just because of his answer, but also because of his tone. It didn't sound like him.

"How do you know?" she accused. The linguist only shook his head, intently observing their surroundings with a hard stare.

"It doesn't matter how he knows, Mother," a voice said at the doorway. "But he is correct."

Both Vala and Daniel whipped around to see Adria smiling at them, her low, easy smile. She turned her head to acknowledge Vala.

"Tomin is waiting for you," she told her. "My guards will escort you to him."

A pair of guards walked in past Adria and each took one of Vala's arms, leading the bewildered woman away. After their footsteps faded away, Adria inclined her head towards Daniel who had been giving her a stony stare the entire time. Giving him her soft smile, the Orici took several steps toward him until there was less than a foot of space between them.

"How did you know, Dr. Jackson?" she mused quietly, almost to herself. "How could you possibly know?"

Daniel kept her gaze as he shrugged off-handily.

"Guessed."

Adria shook her head slowly, keeping her discomforting smile.

"No…" she whispered. "I believe it was more than that."

XxXxX

Immediately after Daniel and Vala's sudden disappearance, Cameron turned to Sam.

"Okay, what the hell just happened?"

Sam shrugged. "No idea."

Cameron turned to Teal'c. "T? Any ideas?"

The Jaffa shook his head.

The colonel frowned but let out a resigned sigh and hit his radio.

"Emmerson, beam us out. And you might only have three signals."

"Will do, Colonel."

As soon as Cameron, Sam, and Teal'c showed up on the Odyssey's bridge, Emmerson couldn't resist asking,

"Where are Vala and Dr. Jackson?"

Cameron looked at the grimly.

"Good question."

Confused, Emmerson frowned. "What happened?"

"They managed to disappear before our very eyes," Teal'c explained.

"Poof!" Cameron added with hand gestures. "Vanished! Into thin air! Buh-bye!"

Sam, Teal'c, and Emmerson raised eyebrows at the aggravated colonel before Sam shook her head, moving on.

"We have absolutely no clue to where they are so we asked you to get us out of there before anything happened to us also," she said, walking up to stand beside Emmerson. "Can you open a channel to the SGC?"

The colonel nodded and hit the com.

"Stargate Command, this is Colonel Emmerson."

"Colonel Emmerson," came Walter's surprised voice over the com. "We weren't expecting to hear from you this early."

"We've run into a snag," Emmerson explained with a glance at Sam. "We're coming home."

"All right," Walter acknowledged. "I'll inform General Landry."

XxXxX

"How'd it go, Colonel?" Landry asked as the remains of SG-1 walked into the briefing room. He frowned. "Where are Vala and Jackson?"

"Missing," Cameron replied. Sam flicked a glance at Cam and gave the general a more thorough answer.

"We don't know where they are, sir. They were right with us the entire time until they, uh…"

"Vanished into thin air," Cameron grumbled.

Landry moved his surprised expression from Cameron to Sam to Teal'c. Then he gestured at the chairs before them.

"Sit down and start at the beginning."

XxXxX

Vala watched grumpily as Daniel stumbled into the room she was waiting in. He noticed her and raised his eyebrows at her folded arms and pouty expression.

"You looked annoyed," he commented mildly.

"'Tomin is waiting for you' my foot!" Vala exclaimed, standing up. "They take away my vest and throw me in here! I see no Tomin!" she bellowed, flinging her arms about, making a complete 360. Daniel watched her expressionless.

"Sorry."

She stopped, her arms falling limp at her sides, staring at him. "What is wrong with you?"

"What do you mean?" Daniel said in a voice that was not his own. At least, it really didn't sound like it.

"You're acting so…weird," Vala explained. Daniel shrugged, sitting down on a windowsill.

"I don't know what you mean."