DEEP SPACE: "Blood Oath" - 01/25/94 - ACT TWO           26.

27   DAX & KOLOTH

	She comes from BEHIND CAMERA, which will now be looking OVER 
	HER SHOULDER, at Koloth.  He gives no hint of knowing she's 
	present.  Yet, suddenly, he executes a quick simultaneous 
	change in direction of both feet and his overhead chopping 
	lunge with the blade.

	It sweeps around to speed downward toward Dax's head -- 
	stopping abruptly only a couple inches from her skull.  She 
	doesn't even flinch.

28   ANOTHER ANGLE

	They stand for a moment as they were: He facing her with 
	blade two inches from her head -- she, totally unafraid and 
	unflinching, still just standing there looking him straight 
	in the eye.

					DAX
				(finally)
			Nice of you to stop.
				(off his silence)
			I'm going with you.

	Koloth lowers his blade -- moves out of attack position.

					KOLOTH
			Curzon Dax was a politician.  It was 
			a diplomatic ploy to bond himself to 
			us in a blood oath.

					DAX
				(calmly)
			That's a lie.

	She's again just risked getting her head chopped off.  For 
	just an instant, and almost reflexively, Koloth tenses for 
	the kill.  But again, her calmness -- and her facial 
	expression that tells him she's speaking the truth -- cause 
	that charged instant to pass.  But he's still not thrilled 
	with being called a liar.

					KOLOTH
				(deadly)
			I am practicing here.  Leave while 
			you can.

					DAX
			When you agree that I can fulfill my 
			part of the oath.