Chapter 3

"How did you get me here?" asked Kira indignantly.

"Wouldn't you like to know, hmm. I think I might just tell you, but not quite yet. I want to see you suffer."

"You are sick, Ivek, you need help. Professional help."

"No, I got all the help I needed the first time round. You know what you did to me? No you don't, do you. You killed my family."

"What?"

"At the supply base in the Kilara valley. You set the bomb, you blew the place up."

"I remember it, some of your people were involved as well. One of the few missions we had inside help on."

"That doesn't change things Major, I hold you responsible for their deaths."

"After what your people did to Bajor you expect me to feel sorry for one single Cardassian? I don't believe this. They were guilty, they were on Bajoran land. Land they took from innocent farmers. Do you know why the land in the Kilara valley is barren? You made it that way, Cardassian troops burnt down all the farms and the people in them."

"That still doesn't change what you did, you killed hundreds of Cardassians who were doing just doing their job."

"Since when is killing people a job?"

"You seemed happy with it. Or does the fact that you're "an innocent Bajoran" make things different?"

"I was defending my home, your people where attacking it."

"Silaran was right. You don't care about others, I think you need to be brought into the light."

Kira shuddered in remembrance of the incidence. "Silaran Prin was bitter and twisted. He was willing to risk the life the child I carried, a child who wasn't even Bajoran, let alone mine."

"I can assure that part of the idea was purely Prin's. The rest I will gladly claim as my own. Pity it didn't work as planed."

"You worked with him. You put the idea into his head."

"In more ways than one. I want to introduce you to a wonderful invention. It puts thoughts and ideas into people's minds. Originally intended to give orders to soldiers, its use has . . . .changed. I can give you memories of things that have never happened, I can make you believe that all Cardassians have a right to Bajor and that you Bajorans are an inferior race."

"You wouldn't dare."

"No, you're quite right. Not the answer you expected? I have no wish to change who you are, that would be immoral. All I'm going to do is make you think that some things have happened to you. Nothing drastic, a beating or two. Purely physical pain . . .for the moment." And with that he turned on his heal and left.

The two guards that flanked him followed, leaving Kira alone.

Back on station Sisko had problem. he tapped his communicator and said,

"Sisko to Odo" He paused before trying again, "Sisko to Odo, respond please." Where the hell was he? "Computer,locate Constable Odo?"

"Constable Odo is no longer onboard the station."

Dax's voice drowned out the computer.

"Ben, we have a problem over here."

"What is it?"

Dax sighed, "The Queensferry has reached Earth, and Major Kira was not onboard."

"Are you sure?"

"I wish I wasn't, but I am. There was no record of her in the crew manifest."

"But we talked to the Major after the Queensferry left . . ."

"I can't have been the same ship, our records show it was the Queensferry. Her own records don't show we had any communication with them after they left here."

"So Odo was right to be worried."

"Yes, I don't think he'll be happy about it though."

"There we have another problem, Odo is no longer onboard."