DEEP SPACE NINE: "Change of Heart" - REV. 1/9/98 - ACT THREE    36.

35   CONTINUED:	(2)

					DAX 
			I don't know why that's funny... 
			but it is.

	There's a HOWL off in the night. They both stop and listen.

					DAX 
			Mating call?

					WORF
				(nods)
			Five hundred meters...
				(points) 
			That way.

	Another, lower pitched HOWL comes from another 
	direction.

					DAX
				(wry) 
			That didn't take long.

					WORF
			Less than three hundred meters...

	The first HOWL returns.

					DAX
			Another happy couple.

	The second HOWL answers again and there's a quiet 
	moment.

					WORF
			When I was a boy, my father used 
			to take my brother and me on 
			camping trips into the Ural 
			Mountains. Every night we'd hear 
			the wolves howling in the 
			distance. Nikolai was always 
			afraid of them, but I'd lie there 
			in my tent for hours... just 
			listening.
				(beat) 
			And I remember being seized by the 
			urge to just... strip off my 
			clothes and run into the night... 
			to live in the forest... and 
			become something... wild.