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“Let’s go inside,” Lupaza told the younger girl, changing her tone. “There’s a glass of
copal
in there with your name on it.”

“Copal!”
Kira exclaimed.

“Sure,” Lupaza said. “You’re old enough to handle something like Gallitep, I think you’re beyond old enough to have a little old glass of
copal.
”

Kira nodded, eager to taste her first cider with the rest of the cell. For if Gallitep had been her formal initiation into the cell, the event that would finally persuade the others to stop calling her “little girl” would probably be a round or two of
copal
with Shakaar. It would do the job better than an
ih’tanu
could have.

A cheer went up as Kira and Lupaza entered the cave, one of many cheers that had been erupting throughout the evening, and Lupaza poured Kira a stoneware tumbler full of strong cider. Kira took a hesitant sip and willed her face not to crumple with the potent sour flavor that stung the back of her tongue. Another cheer went up as she opened her eyes and raised her cup with a smile.

As the evening blurred into a haze of warm triumph, a cacophony of friendly cheers and songs of victory, Kira recognized that the old ways were really gone for good now. Bajor was a different place than it had once been, a new place. It would never be the same as it was before Kira was born, but her world
would
be free again. Kira would have a hand in ensuring her people’s freedom, she decided—no matter how many Bajoran collaborators she had to kill to do it. This would be the last time that she would ever mourn the loss of someone who had caused the kind of suffering that she had witnessed at Gallitep. Tonight, she was truly a resistance fighter.

I
n his office, housed in the business sector of Cardassia Prime, Dost Abor was putting his papers in order as he did every day before he went home. He was a ritualistic person, and though the task was almost entirely meaningless, to neglect it without just cause would have been unthinkable.

When the chime on his comm sounded, he answered it with eagerness, for he was a man whose particular line of work dictated that he had to be ready for anything, at all times. He was anticipating a call, but then there were always those calls that he wasn’t anticipating, and it was important to be just as prepared for the unexpected as for the expected. Abor was nothing if not flexible.

“Mister Abor,”
said the woman whose face appeared before him. It was the turnkey in charge of the storeroom at the Ministry of Science, the very person Abor had been expecting to contact him this evening.
“We received your request for the item, and it appears that your credentials are all in order. But…we have unfortunate news.”

“And what might that be?” Dost asked, annoyed but unsurprised. The ministry was an inefficient body, even compared to the idiots in Central Command. He already knew the object was lost, he only needed to gather a little more information regarding its disappearance.

“I’m…sorry to have to inform you of this, but the object in question seems to be…missing.”

“Missing!” Abor repeated, with mock surprise. “Tell me, Madam, with an organization as tightly run as yours, how could that possibly be the case?” He did not bother to conceal the sarcasm in his tone.

“Mister Abor, I do apologize, and I can tell you that I don’t know how a thing like this could have happened—nobody has looked at that artifact in years.”

“Who was the last person to see it?” Abor asked her. “Surely there must be an information trail.”

“Well, going by memory alone, I do seem to recall that a former student looked at it, a very long time ago…There was some kind of a to-do about the security system, and the object was classified, but since then—”

“I don’t want you to go by your memory,” Abor told her coolly. “I want you to go by the records. Find out who accessed that object last, and then contact me.”

“Without the container in hand, that may be difficult to ascertain.”

Abor smiled coolly. “Well then,” he told the woman, “I imagine you’ll want to begin looking for the container right away.”

“May I ask why this is so important?”
the woman asked him, plainly annoyed at the manner in which she was being spoken to.

“No, you may not,” Abor told her. “It does not concern you.”

A knowing expression came across the woman’s eyes, and Abor punched the disconnect button. If she thought she knew what was going on, she probably couldn’t guess the half of it. But she almost certainly suspected the Order was involved. No matter, Abor decided. If she became a problem, the Order could get rid of her. Tain might be reluctant to arrange it himself, but Abor supposed he had enough influence to make that call on his own.

Of course, it would be ideal to do it before he was sent back to the Valo system. Abor had no intention of allowing another agent to take credit for a breakthrough that was deservedly his to claim. It had been Abor who had uncovered the long-overlooked transmission that he believed might lead the Order to the heart of the risen Oralian Way.

Enabran Tain may have been far less interested in the Bajoran artifacts than his predecessor, but that didn’t mean that Dost Abor had lost interest in them. Abor had recently learned that the artifact from the Ministry of Science was the only one that had ever gone on record as causing anyone to have any kind of so-called “mystical” experience since it had been removed from Bajor.

Abor was not certain, but he believed that the artifact in question had been removed from Bajor under the authority of Rhan Ico, one of many agents who had disappeared during the upheaval that followed Tain’s assumption of office. There was a short interim during which the vast and untraceable contents of the Order’s storage facility had been ransacked by several agents who protested Tain’s impending status; those agents had all disappeared shortly following the incident—and so had at least one of the Orbs of Bajor.

Tain was unconcerned about the breach; the old man was convinced that there was no weight to the stories surrounding the artifacts, the suggestion that whoever possessed them might be privy to a kind of second sight, an indefinable source of knowledge and power. But Abor, who had been in the Order at the time of the first artifact’s retrieval from Bajor, remembered a few details about that original group of Oralians, those the Order and Central Command had conspired to exterminate. The Oralians had developed a particular fascination with Bajoran religion, and the artifacts that came with it. Now that the Oralians were said to be growing in numbers once again, Tain was sure that it was only a matter of time before Central Command began to tolerate them, and possibly even to condone their foolish, imaginary ideologies. Enabran Tain made no secret of his disdain for many of Central Command’s “softer” policies, believing that the military was weakening due at least in part to the sudden influx of wealth from Bajor, turning soldiers who had once been hard and ruthless into soft, complacent politicians—most notably, Gul Dukat.

Reviewing old transmissions when he was last stationed on Valo VI, Abor had discovered an archived communiqué between Yannik Reyar, the military’s liaison with the Order, and his daughter, who apparently worked at the Ministry of Science several years before. Their conversation referenced a Bajoran artifact, one that Dost Abor was certain had been taken from the Obsidian Order, somehow finding its way to the ministry. Tain had shown little interest when Abor sent word that he might have located an item that had been missing from the Order’s catalogued inventory. But, Abor hoped, when he assembled his case, Tain would take notice—for Abor had done a bit of digging since he first came across the transmission, and he intended to find not only the Orb, but the woman who had handled it last—the woman who had apparently attempted to hide it—the woman he believed to be the Guide for the Oralian Way.

THE TEROK NOR SAGA

CONTINUES IN

DAWN OF THE EAGLES

The following is a guide to many of the specific characters, places, and related material in
Night of the Wolves
. Where such an item was mentioned or appeared previously in a movie, episode, or other work of
Star Trek
fiction, its first appearance is cited.

APPENDIX I: BAJOR

Characters

Akhere Bis
(male) resident of Valo II

Akhere Juk
(male) resident of Valo II, father of Akhere Bis

Arin
(male) kai of the Bajoran faith (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Aro Seefa
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Ornathia cell

Basso Tromac
(male) personal aide to Gul Dukat. (DS9/“Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night”)

Bram Adir
(male) resistance fighter, leader of the Bram cell

Crea
(female) resistance fighter, member of the Ornathia cell

Dakahna Vass
(female) resistance fighter, member of the Shakaar cell

Darrah Mace
(male) resident of Valo II, former member of the Bajoran Militia (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Daul Mirosha
(male) researcher at the Bajoran Institute of Science

Dava
(male) a kai who lived several hundred years prior to the Cardassian occupation

Faon
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Bram cell

Furel
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Shakaar cell (DS9/“Shakaar”)

Gantt
(male) resistance fighter and medic, member of the Shakaar cell (DS9/“Ties of Blood and Water”)

Halpas Palin
(male) resistance fighter, leader of the Halpas cell

Hintasi
(male) resident of Valo II

Istani Reyla
(female) monk, friend of the Kira family (
DS9
/
Avatar
)

Kanore
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Bram cell (TNG/“Preemptive Strike”)

Keeve Falor
(male) resident of Valo II, former member of the Bajoran Chamber of Ministers (TNG/“Ensign Ro”)

Ketauna
(male) artist, follower of Opaka Sulan

Kira Meru
(female) mistress of Gul Dukat, mother of Kira Nerys (DS9/“Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night”)

Kira Nerys
(female) resistance fighter, member of the Shakaar cell (DS9/“Emissary”)

Kira Pohl
(male) brother of Kira Nerys (DS9/“Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night”)

Kira Reon
(male) brother of Kira Nerys (DS9/“Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night”)

Kira Taban
(male) father of Kira Nerys (DS9/“Ties of Blood and Water”)

Kubus Oak
(male) special liaison between Gul Dukat and the Caradassian-sanctioned Bajoran government (DS9/“The Collaborator”)

Lafe Darin
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Halpas cell, lifelong friend of Lenaris Holem

Legan Duravit
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Ornathia cell

Legan Fin
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Ornathia cell

Lenaris Holem
(male) resistance fighter, former member of the Halpas cell and later the Ornathia cell (DS9/“Shakaar”)

Lenaris Jau
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Ornathia cell, brother of Lenaris Holem

Lenaris Pendan
(male) father of Lenaris Holem and Lenaris Jau

Lino
(male) resident of Valo II

Luma Rahl
(female) friend of Kira Meru (DS9/“Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night”)

Lupaza
(female) resistance fighter, member of the Shakaar cell (DS9/“Shakaar”)

Matram Tryst
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Shakaar cell

Mesto Drade
(male) resident of Rakantha Province

Mobara
(male) resistance fighter and engineer, member of the Shakaar cell (DS9/“Shakaar”)

Mora Pol
(male) researcher at the Bajoran Institute of Science (DS9/“The Alternate”)

Opaka Bekar
(male) husband of Opaka Sulan

Opaka Fasil
(male) son of Opaka Sulan (Opaka’s son is first mentioned, but not named, in DS9/“The Collaborator”)

Opaka Sulan
(female) priest at the Kendra shrine, later kai of the Bajoran faith (DS9/“Emissary”; Opaka’s given name was established in
DS9/Rising Son
)

Ornak
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Shakaar cell (DS9/“Shakaar”)

Ornathia Delle
(female) resistance fighter, member of Ornathia cell, cousin of Ornathia Lac

Ornathia Harta
(female) resistance fighter, member of the Ornathia cell, cousin of Ornathia Lac

Ornathia Lac
(male) resistance fighter, leader of the Ornathia cell

Ornathia Nerissa
(female) resistance fighter with the Ornathia cell

Ornathia Sten
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Ornathia cell, cousin of Ornathia Lac

Ornathia Taryl
(female) resistance fighter, member of the Ornathia cell, sister of Ornathia Lac

Par Lusa
(male) resistance fighter with the Shakaar cell

Petra Chan
(female) childhood friend of Kira Nerys

Porta
(male) priest, friend of the Kira family (DS9/“Accession”)

Res
(male) resistance fighter with the Ornathia cell

Ro Gale
(male) father of Ro Laren (Gale’s name comes from a computer screen graphic in TNG/“The Next Phase”)

Ro Laren
(female) resistance fighter, member of the Bram cell (TNG/“Ensign Ro”)

Sadakita Rass
(female) resistance fighter, member of the Bram cell

Shakaar Edon
(male) resistance fighter, leader of the Shakaar resistance cell (DS9/“Shakaar”)

Shev
(male) resident of Yarlin, follower of Opaka Sulan

Sorash Mabey
(female) resident of Dahkur Province

Tancha
(female) resistance fighter with Ornathia cell

Thera Tibb
(female) resident of Relliketh

Thill Revi
(male) resident of Rakantha Province

Tiven Cohr
(male) resistance fighter and engineer, member of the Halpas cell

Tokiah
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Bram cell

Tora Naprem
(female) mistress of Gul Dukat, mother of Tora Ziyal (DS9/“Indiscretion”)

Trakor
(male) ancient religious figure, writer of prophecies (DS9/“Destiny”)

Tynara
(female) Gallitep laborer

Vusan
(male) resistance fighter, member of the Ornathia cell

Winn Adami
(female) monk, friend of the Ornathia family (DS9/“In the Hands of the Prophets”)

Places

Artist’s Palette
: area of Dahkur Province

Berain Valley
: near Relliketh, its main port is Berain city

Denorios Belt
: ring of charged plasma in the Bajoran star system; where the
odo’ital
was found (DS9/“Emissary”)

Derna
: Fourth moon of Bajor, former site of a Cardassian base (DS9/“Image in the Sand”; the base was established in
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Gallitep
: Cardassian-run labor camp and mining facility (DS9/“Duet”)

Genmyr
: ruined city in Kendra Province

Jalanda
: population center in Hedrikspool Province (The Jalanda Forum was first mentioned in DS9/“Sanctuary”)

Jeraddo
: fifth moon of Bajor; site of the Lunar V base (DS9/“Progress”)

Jo’kala
: population center in Musilla Province (DS9/“Starship Down”)

Karnoth Mountains
: range near the city of Relliketh

Kendra Shrine
: religious temple in Kendra Valley; the second to be built on the site after the first was destroyed in
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
(Kendra Valley first mentioned in DS9/“The Collaborator”; Kendra Province first mentioned in DS9/“Penumbra”)

Meiku Forest
: wooded area just outside Rakantha Province

Mylea
: population center in Kendra province (
Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume Two—Fragments and Omens
)

Naghai Keep
: ruined ancient castle in Kendra Valley, former ancestral home of the Jas clan (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

Sahving Valley
: region of Kendra Province (DS9/“The Home-coming”)

Tamulna
: city in Dahkur Province (DS9/“The Reckoning”)

Tilar
: a Bajoran peninsula, famous for its temperate climate and beautiful landscape (
DS9/Unity
)

Tozhat
: Cardassian settlement on Bajor, governed by Exarch Kotan Pa’Dar (DS9/“Cardassians”)

Valo II
: habitable planet in the Valo system, home to many refugee Bajorans (TNG/“Ensign Ro”)

Valo VI
: barren planetoid in the Valo system, site of a Cardassian listening post

Yarlin
: settlement in Kendra Province

Food and Drink

alva
: grapelike fruit (DS9/“Resurrection”)

copal
: ciderlike alcoholic beverage (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

deka
tea
: hot brewed beverage (DS9/“Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night”)

jumja
: tree with a sticky, sweet sap from which a popular confection is made (DS9/“A Man Alone”)

kava
root
: edible tuber, part of the extremely versatile kava plant (DS9/“Starship Down”)

makara
: herb known for its medicinal value, particularly to pregnant women (DS9/“The Darkness and the Light”)

moba
: sweet, tree-grown fruit (DS9/“Rejoined”)

ratamba
stew
: good eats (DS9/“For the Cause”)

Other

balon
: fuel source abandoned before the occupation because of its notorious instability, later revived by the resistance

batos
: big, smelly, domesticated herd animal (
DS9
/
Section 31: Abyss
)

borhya
: ghost (TNG/“The Next Phase”)

bell
: benchmark of time, similar to “o’clock” (
Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers
)

B’hava’el
: the star of Bajor (
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual
)

cadge lupus
: large canine predator, similar to a wolf