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         DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Muse" - REV. 02/20/96 ACT ONE         7.

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					LWAXANA
			He's Tavnian.

	She looks at him as if this were explanation enough, 
	but Odo has no idea what this means.

					ODO
			And?

					LWAXANA
			They believe in strict separation 
			of the sexes. Boys are raised by 
			men, girls by women. Those poor 
			children aren't even told the 
			other sex exists until they're 
			sixteen.

					ODO
				(catching on)
			And your child is male.

					LWAXANA
				(nods)
			The day Jeyal found out, he said 
			he was going to take the baby away 
			from me as soon as he was born 
			I told him that wasn't what we'd 
			agreed to; he'd said it would be 
			different with us because I wasn't 
			Tavnian.

					ODO
			But he changed his mind.

					LWAXANA
				(nods)
			During our wedding ceremony, he 
			spoke so beautifully about why he 
			wanted to marry me, but afterwards 
			it was as if I'd become a piece of 
			property in his eyes.

					ODO
			So you ran away.

					LWAXANA
			And it wasn't easy, believe me. 
			Toward the end, I was practically 
			a prisoner in my own house.

	Odo knows Lwaxana came to him for a reason, and he's 
	desperate to find a way to put the situation right and 
	get her out of his hair.