This is the moment that makes it all worth it, Daniel thinks. Just watching Robby enter the room with that smile on his face.

Not that Daniel wouldn't have taken the bond either way, not when he brought it up so long ago, when he would have been fine with sharing a bond back then anyway - but there's a special joy and relief in knowing that all of this makes Robby so happy, especially after what the boy has been through. After getting that heavy confession off his chest only a few moments ago.

Daniel finds himself instinctively smiling right back at him, unable to do anything else in the face of that smile.

"I don't exactly have personal experience," he answers to the question.

(Which is technically true, because even if he did have that bond with Terry Silver - a fact he isn't exactly eager to bring up now after hiding it all this time, not wanting that man to shadow over this moment as he had earlier - it's not like Daniel was involved in its preparation. He wasn't even super involved in its execution.)

His smile tugs a little further on his lips as he adds: "But I'm willing to follow your lead."

There's almost a playful quality of the words, eager to match Robby's own giddiness, trying to keep the boy's enthusiasm going.