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      DEEP SPACE NINE: "Prodigal... " - REV. 11/05/98 - ACT TWO      31.

17   CONTINUED:

					YANAS
			Well, maybe you should. You'll
			find him lying in bed with a 
			hangover. When I woke up this
			morning he was passed out in the
			entry room. Evidently he spent
			most of the night doing this...

	Yanas reaches behind the desk and pulls out the
	painting seen earlier hanging in the living room.
	Someone has painted a large cartoonish smiley face
	right in the center of the artwork. Ezri smiles a
	little at the sight.

					YANAS
			You think it's funny?

					EZRI
			I think it's funny that you think
			he did this because of me. He's
			not happy here, can't you see
			that?

					YANAS
			That's nonsense.

					EZRI
			Mother, he's defacing his own
			artwork -- work that you insisted
			on displaying after he objected.

					YANAS
			I'm proud of him... I'm trying to
			encourage him.

					EZRI
			But all you've done is make him
			feel trapped and powerless.

					YANAS
			You've barely spent one night in
			this house and you think you can
			analyze our entire family. You
			don't know your brother anymore,
			Ezri. Norvo is a fragile young
			man who needs to be cared for.

					EZRI
			He's a grown man who needs his
			freedom. You're smothering him.