Daniel paced.

The voice from above was strangely quiet.

Daniel paced somemore.

The voice sighed.

Daniel paused and glanced upwards and saw, nothing.

The voice grunted and sighed again mumbling something incoherent.

Daniel frowned.

"Are you asleep?" he asked in a loud irritated voice.

"Hmmm? What? Huh?" said the voice in sleepy tone.

"Are you asleep"

"Yes Daniel I'm fast asleep"

"Here I am pacing a really long hole into the ground and you sleep"

"Well what do you want me to do, count your paces?"

"Advise me, isn't that what your supposed to do?"

"Um.....No" replied the voice.

"Then why do your hang over me so much" said Daniel his irritation rising.

"Because your interesting. Your not like the rest of the ascended beings around here. Plus I dont want to miss it when they tell you what's going to happen to you"

Daniel frowned again.

"You know most of the ascended being people things generally become all 'rhyme and reason, cryptic speeches, stuck up, holier than thou' type beings. You didn't. Must admit we had a bet that your were going that way when you visited O'Neill. I forgot to thankyou, I won"

Daniel slumped onto a rock.

"Hey I'll tell you the truth" said the voice in a hushed tone "I was actually rooting for you when you tried to help your buddies, just dont tell anyone"

Daniel perked up a little.

"Thankyou...I think"

"Look little buddy..."

"Little buddy?"daniel repeated in a 'did you just call me little buddy?' voice

"Hey man from up here your the size of a full stop"

"Really?"

"Actually no, but your really really small....Anyway as I was saying...."

"Yeah?"

"Gimme a minute and I'll remember"

Daniel sighed.

The voice sighed.

They both waited.