A pair of tongues wrapped around jadzia and began pulling her closer to the mouth. At the entrance, he says, he pulled off his peasant clothes covered with the dust and dirt of that immediate life, washed himself, put on his noble court dress, closed the door on the world of toiling and getting, private loving, private hating and personal regrets, sat down with a sigh of contentment to those wider dreams.

But it had also been only a scrap, and what no one knew was what whoever was in control of the port had done about that discovery.