"Anything new?"

Daniel shook his head. "More about the great and powerful Anubis. But nothing useful, really."

"Not what I want to hear," Jack said.

"Not what I want to tell you."

Teal'c headed toward them from the end of the row. "It would appear this sector was given to the Goa'uld Tiamat after Anubis' banishment."

"And Tiamat is..."

"Babylonian," Daniel offered.

"Dead," Teal'c told them.

Jack pressed his lips together. "Well, then."

"Who came after that?" the archaeologist asked.

"Marduk. Ra, perhaps," the Jaffa offered. "The pillars do not speak of this."

"You think they're older?"

"I do," he told Daniel.

"Please tell me you're getting something useful here." Jack sounded exasperated, even to his own ears. This mission was working his very last nerve.

"I don't... I mean, from an archaeological perspective, it's fascinating. It's very, very old. But battlefield intel? I don't know. I would think some of this knowledge could come in handy. But... I don't think we'll know what's useful until the moment it becomes useful, you know? And so theoretically it all is."

The older man pressed his fingers against his eyelids with a sigh.

"Sorry; we're working as fast as we can."

"Yeah. I know."

Daniel bit his lip. "Is she feeling any better?"

"Doubt it," he muttered, rolling his neck.

"Don't be mad at her, Jack," Daniel requested softly, keeping his voice far away from the ears of the woman in question. "This isn't her fault."

"I know that. I'm not mad at her. But I'm still mad." At both men's questioning looks, he said, "I'm pretty freakin' annoyed to be stuck off world and a man down, because you know damn well she'd be all but worthless if a battalion of Jaffa came running through those trees. I'm really freakin' pissed off that I can't make the right call about that, because dragging her home like I should is apparently also making some giant political statement about women on the front lines, and politics is not my thing. And I am livid that the medical staff thought it was okay to change the medications of one of my soldiers and send them into the field when they knew damn well this could happen."

Daniel blinked. "I missed something."

He had no inclination to repeat the conversation he'd had with Carter about her birth control, and he just shook his head.

"I wish there was something we could do to make her feel better," the archaeologist said.

But there wasn't. And that made Jack mad, too.