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            DEEP SPACE: "Vortex" - REV. 1/13/93 - ACT TWO           20.

25   CONTINUED:

					ODO
			You just said...
				(catches himself)
			You implied there were.

					CRODEN
			I'm sorry if I misled you.  There 
			were shape-shifters on Rakhar at one 
			time, but that was centuries ago.

					ODO
			What happened to them?

					CRODEN
			They were persecuted... driven out.

	Odo looks disappointed, but not surprised to hear this.

					CRODEN
			But I do know a place where there 
			are still some left.  At least, there 
			were a few years ago.

					ODO
			And if you had the chance, you'd 
			take me there.

					CRODEN
			Sure I would.  Why not?

					ODO
				(playing along)
			Tell me where it is and I'll go have 
			a look.

					CRODEN
			I'd have to show you.  There's no 
			way you could get there on you own...

	Enough of this game.  Odo moves closer to the containment 
	field.

					ODO
				(quiet menace)
			The next time you lie, I'll save 
			Ah-Kel the trouble of killing you.

					CRODEN
			There's that hard word again.  There 
			are times I don't dissemble.