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derstand."
"Your instincts tell you differently?" Weyoun
asked. "The Bajoran treaty is some kind of trick?"
"Not a trick... a message."
"From whom?"
"From Benjamin Sisko. He is their emissary with
the beings who live in the wormhole. The Bajorans
would listen to him. I'm sure he was the one who
convinced them to make a treaty with the Dominion,
just as I'm sure the treaty is a shield, not a bond. That

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agreement is a message from him to me. It means to
tell me that he is already beginning to maneuver
events."
Weyoun's intelligent eyes flickered with concern,
then changed. "You read too much into things."
"Do I?" Dukat handed back. "Then I must be
foolish to notice that Starfleet has not defended the
station with a flank of ships. All we have here is the
Defiant, which is doing a job over there, and the sta-
tion taking the blows and defending itself. I must be
overly cautious to appreciate the station's enhanced
firepower and shields. No, there is some reason for
this... perhaps they're sacrificing the station for
some reason. Something else is at work here ....We
would be imprudent to think else."
Around them, on every screen, Dominion ships
speared toward the station. Several, at least eight,
were instantly obliterated, lighting space with fireballs
of primary detonation, then a second plume as the
ships weapons or fuel ignited. Battle in space was a
glossy thing. In a line with Dukat's flagship were the
Cardassian flanks, which he had deliberately held
back, allowing the Jem Hadar to take the brunt of the
initial wave of defensive fire. Briefly, Dukat relished
the foolishness of the ironheaded Jem Hadar and the
arrogance of the Vorta, who had thought the vanguard
was an honor and that Dukat was doing them a nice
gesture by letting them go first.
The station's effort to defend itself and the Defiant
was costing many Dominion ships, but anyone look-
ing could see that the Dominion and Cardassian