Today my old friend and mentor Gul Dukat contacted me and told me that he was able to get data from the research station on which my wife and my father had been held. He asked me to sit down before he continued his report. He told me that my father and my wife had been killed at the station from the Commander of the facility. I wasn't able to speak for about 2 minutes. During this time Dukat told me that the was able to escape from the base before beening killed by friends ore admirers of the family. He told me that Duran has been killed after giving birth to a beautiful girl. Dukat and his man found her after they arrived at the planet. Duran must have hidden her before she has been killed. My father has been officially executed for helping Duran escape from the complex.

The Stations Commander is Gul G'Kan a former member of the Obsidian Order. Dukat transferred a log with data about the baby and said that he has to terminate the contact now. Before his picture vanished he told me that he could transfer Ziyal at the shortest time possible to my ship if I send him the coordinates to meet with him.

My first thoughts were that I must not collapse. Duran told me always to be happy if she died before me because she would return to me in my dreams and dreams are immortal. I never thought that she would leave this world before me. I was completely unprepared for such a situation but Duran told me always to think about priorities, but my family was my priority. Personal feelings had to step back this time. I hoped that she has given me the power to live on, with a baby aboard a starship. The crew don't trust me even a fool would realise this. The priority Duran has set for me if she'll die was to find a mother for our children, we were going to have. I had to promise her to find a mother for them before grieve for her. I had given her my word and I intend to keep it. After I had mad my mind up I walked straight to the captain to ask her if it might be possible to transport me to the planet when we have reached Romulus to take my little girl with me.

Because of the connections between the Tal Shiar and the Obsidian Order Cardassians were nothing unusual at Romulus. It would be no problem for me to walk around freely. The captain wasn't in her quarters and I decided that I should talk later in private with her about this matter. I decided to talk to the young klingon Lieutenant because she seem to be interested in me. We met at the ship's lounge and she asked me if she could tell me a secret. I told her that she could and that I promise not to tell it to anybody. She leaned toward me and whispered that she like me very much and that she is interested in a close relationship with me. B'Etran was indeed direct. The next thing I remember was that we were sitting at her quarters and talked about my wife, her death, my daughter and the promise I had given her. I talked the whole night about my fears and sorrows. She just sat there listening to me holding my head, telling me that together we could solve all the problems. It seams that I will have time to grieve.