DS9 - What You Leave Behind by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek [Star Trek]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Tags: \Star Trek
Published: 2011-01-02T08:00:42.680000+00:00

stepped over the body and came to Damar.

"Legate Damar, I am Ekoor. I pledge

my life to free Cardassia from the Dominion!"

Giddy with pleasure at this turn, Damar

clapped the newcomer on his shoulder and cried,

"Welcome, Ekoor!

Tell me-how many are with you?"

"Dozens," Ekoor claimed instantly. "And

hundreds more moment by moment. Weyoun's announcement

enraged Cardassians to wake up from our slumber."

"Finally!" Garak gushed.

"Your resistance has shamed many of us;" Ekoor

went on, rewarding Kira with a nod that seemed

to indicate that he also understood who she was.

"Our armada has gone off to stand by the Dominion

in the fight against the Allied fleet." Ekoor said,

"but we're getting contacts now from many ship commanders.

Weyoun at "Don't tell me that fool

broadcast his threat to the ships!" Kira burst out.

Ekoor nodded vigorously. "He did!"

"He doesn't understand Cardassians at

all"" Damar announced with contempt. "We will

only collaborate so far. We will not be

threatened."

"Sounds familiar," Kira grumbled.

Damar grasped Ekoor's arm. "What are the

comreanders saying? Our ships-what are they saying!"

"Whatever they're saying"" Kira interrupted,

"we've got to get a message through to Starfleet and

tell them about it. Ekoor, where's the nearest

planet-to-space communications system?"

"I know where it is"" Damar said. "Follow

me."

The edge of an abyss. Beyond, the abyss stretched

nearly beyond sight, and at that point a sheer red wall

rose. Dukat surveyed the surreal environment,

its steaming gushers and unseen source of light

despite the depths, and contemplated the alien ness

of Bajor.

"This is it, isn't it?" he asked.

Nearly exhausted, Kai Winn paused to rest.

"We've reached the end of one journey and stand ready

to begin another."

Yes, well, that was an answer to a simple question.

Dukat moved to the edge of the abyss aDd peered

down into the spiraling canyon. Trite though it

sounded in his mind, the pit re ally did look

bottomless.

"What's the matter, Dukat?" Winn pestered.

"You look disappointed."

"I know this sounds naive," he allowed, "but I

was expecting to see fire. After all, they are

called the Fire Caves."

"And with good reason." She gathered her robes,

knelt to the gnarly rocks, and put the Kosst

Amojan down before her. Reverently she opened the

enormous book, selected a particular passage,

and closed her eyes.

She began to chant.

LANO KALA BO'SHAR LANU NO'VALA

PAH ROM GA RANA MOKAO BA'JAH

KO'SE

NUSSO

MA'KORA KAJANI . . .

LANO KALA KOSST AMOJAN!

Dukat frowned. He didn't under land the words,

and he wondered for a moment if she was leading him on.

That thought dissolved when the Fire Caves's gaping

abyss erupted into wall after wall of flames. Every

her was now burning as if giant curtains had been

soaked in oil.

Such a sight! Breathless, Dukat absorbed the

magnificence of mysticism and pondered the

unrevealed science that made all this a wonder and a

mystery. He felt as if the fires had come for him

alone, to make him believe.

The Pah-wraiths were sending him a message of

victory.

They would come if he freed them, they would go before him

and knock down the Prophets and Sisko and the

Federation and all its allies. The Cardassian

Empire would gain its old greatness in the Alpha

Quadrant. The name of Dukat would once again

carry influence, instill fear, deserve respect.

This time, though, it would all be different. He would

have his own respect, for a change.

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