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"And 'we' were also part of the Hundred, Laas," Odo said. "The Founders sent
us out to seek and discover, to find and learn, in the hope that we would
bring knowledge back to them. I've come home knowing that the solids are
neither inferior nor evil, they're just not like us. Peace is possible."

Urged by feeling, Odo got to his feet, facing Laas. "This is the knowledge
I've brought home to the Great Link, that I was sent away for. Shouldn't I be
permitted to show them how things really are?"

"Your 'knowledge' is being heard," Laas said, his pity turned to resignation,
his voice heavy with it.

"That the solids deserve our respect. You introduce this to us when we've lost
so much by their hands . . . but we still listen, because we are Linked with
you. All of this the Link does for you, and still you plead for them."

Odo turned away, looking up and away from Laas and the shimmering gold sea,
looking into the sky. Laas stepped from the rock and was gone.

They would listen. They would learn.

Odo saw stars, pale in the dark and faraway, and thought of Nerys. He was
concerned for her. She was the reason that he was here, she was how he knew
that the Link was wrong, and she was out there now, dealing with what he'd set
in motion. Events that might eventually provide evidence for his cause, for
their causeЧbut that might also be hard on her. She was the strongest person
he'd ever known, but he couldn't foresee all the possible consequences of his
actions.

Odo sat down again, leaning back against a raised formation of rock so he
could keep looking at the sky. He could only keep telling the truth; he would
have to wait for news.

1

After Ro left, Kira sat down, staring at the book and its translation, feeling
strangely numb. It was almost as though Reyla's murder had triggered a chain
of miseries, as though the man who had killed her had introduced chaos and
disaster to them all.

Within the last three days, Reyla's murder, then the Jem'Hadar attack. Now the
Federation is coming, weapons ready, we've got a Jem'Hadar locked up who says
that Odo sent him here on a mission of peace . . . and now this.

As unhappy and tired as she was, the thought almost made her smile, a giddy
reaction to the unlikely summary of events. It sounded ludicrous, the details
and circumstances only adding to the implausibility of it all.

Yes, and people have died.