DEEP SPACE: "Vortex" - REV. 1/13/93 - ACT THREE          27.

39   CONTINUED:

					CRODEN
			What does telling you get me?

					ODO
			Nothing.

					CRODEN
			Too bad.  I thought you might feel 
			sorry for me... seeing we're the 
			only two here from the other side of 
			the passage...

					ODO
			I feel nothing for you but contempt... 
			you're a thief and a killer and who 
			knows what else...

					CRODEN
			Typical.

					ODO
			Of "changeling" behavior... yes, I'm 
			sure...

	He turns to leave, still holding the locket...

					CRODEN
			Excuse me...

	Odo turns and sees Croden holding out his hand... give me 
	back the stone... Odo reacts, looks down at the stone and 
	finds in himself a reluctance to give it up... but he quickly 
	suppresses that, turns off the forcefield and as he hands it 
	back to Croden... Croden maintains eye contact as he says 
	intimately --

					CRODEN
			In my sector, there is a nebula called 
			the Chamra Vortex.  There are millions 
			of asteroids there.  This "stone" 
			came from one of them.  I can take 
			you to it, changeling.

					ODO
			Others must know where it is.

					CRODEN
			No.  The Vortex is uncharted.  But 
			as a thief and a killer and who knows 
			what else, I hid there often.  I 
			found this changeling colony by chance 
			but... I know my way back...