DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Changing... " - REV. 02/23/99 - ACT THREE   39.

30   CONTINUED:

					SISKO
			I'm joking.

					KASIDY 
			You better be.

	Kasidy steps over Sisko and gives him a kiss.

					SISKO
			What's that for?

					KASIDY 
			The flowers. And for being big 
			enough to admit when you're 
			wrong.

	The door CHIMES.

					SISKO
			That must be Quark with the 
			necklace.

					KASIDY 
			Necklace?

					SISKO
			In case the flowers didn't work. 
				(to door) 
			Come in.

	But it's not Quark at the door...

31   IT'S ADMIRAL ROSS

	and he's not bearing a necklace either.

					ROSS 
			Ben, we just got word. The Breen 
			have launched a counteroffensive 
			against our forces in the 
			Chin'toka System.

					SISKO
			Have they broken through?

					ROSS 
			In two places.

	Sisko knows what this means.