Jarquin

“You will bring Leval to me, or I will go to him,” Jarquin said placidly.

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

“I will attempt to distract Citizen Jarquin while you locate Selar.”

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

“One moment, Citizen Jarquin,” Sisko said distractedly, activating the transporter, then realizing he could hardly beam Tuvok aboard with the Quirinians watching.

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

“Your loyalty is commendable, Captain Jacobs,” Citizen Jarquin was saying.

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

Other ‘seeds’ may have started the outbreaks on Tenjin and Quirinus, but I must have brought it again to the domes we visited, the survivors in Sawar, Citizen Jarquin, the Sliwoni when I went into town to steal the adaptor … we wondered how it spread so quickly there …

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

“Citizen Jarquin …” Sisko hesitated, using his nervousness to his advantage.

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

“Citizen Jarquin, can you imagine looking up at what you think is a cloud and seeing instead a rainbow of colors, flashing in the sunlight, all fluttering at once, moving as one toward a common goal?”

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

Well, maybe Jarquin would be content to talk to Tuvok and leave Selar out of it.

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

If Citizen Jarquin had seen through our ruse, it would have meant my life as much as yours.

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

The door slid closed behind them, leaving Jarquin alone, watching the ever-swirling snow from his window, but thinking about butterflies.

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004