Fear.
Nine hosts.
Curzon, Terias, Jadzia…they'd been in battle before.
Why was it that Ezri Tigan Dax was terrified ?
Was it the smoke, the fire, the fear of constant death and fighting ?
She was a counsellor, not a warrior. But Ezri would do her bit, if only the slug in her would give her a break. Sitting in an escape pod after the Breen destroyed her ship, the Defiant, made her think things through.
This war was sometimes one big disaster. As a Counsellor, she understood the Dominion's instructions to the Federation to stop intruding in the Gamma Quadrant.
But did they ?
No.
They kept on, poking the sleeping dragon and inciting this bloody war.
Ezri took a deep breath, trying to calm herself. Claustrophobia wasn't setting in, if she just sat back and relaxed herself. Yeah, if she relaxed. Hopefully the Dominion was feeling generous and would let the survivors of the fleet live.
Hopefully.
