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What We Live For, chapter 2

Kathryn regarded her and saw where her reasoning was going. ”You think the peace treaty is only a tactic on their part, not any genuine desire for peace?” She replied. It had occurred to her too, and she knew the Federation council had to have taken the possibility into account when they’d made their decisions as well. There was no proof of it, no way of knowing, not really, but, not to have strong suspicions? She wasn’t nearly that naive. ”That they saw they couldn’t win by continuing the war, so they agreed to peace, but only to use the lull in the fighting to build up their forces again – is that’s what you’re getting at?”
”There’s very little doubt of it, in my opinion.” Mariah replied. ”And, if that’s the case…”
Kathryn smiled, recognizing that it was a logically sound argument, if still, in her opinion, an obviously imprudent one. ”If that’s the case, then it really doesn’t really matter what the Maquis do. Oh, the Cardassians would posture, try to win concessions perhaps, but they wouldn’t go to war over what’s happening here. Not until they’re ready, and they’d do that anyway. That’s what you’re getting at, I take it?”
Mariah nodded. ”And the Federation knows it too, mark my words.” She replied jadedly. ”They’re just hoping a taste of peace will give them a taste for it too. That the Cardassian people won’t want to live through another round of the deaths and austerity that a resumption of the war would entail. They’re looking for another success like the Khitomer Accords, and they’re willing to hang us out to dry to get it. What they don’t seem to understand is that Khitomer was based on something good – something honorable, as the Klingons would say – and, like you said, there’s nothing honorable about any of this. Bad foundations, the building falls. They’re being fools.”
Kathryn had to smile. ”I have to say, you might just be right about that.” She admitted. ”That they’re being fools in some respects, almost certainly I think.” She said softly. Not that she honestly thought it was a good enough excuse for what the Maquis were doing in the final analysis.
”But you still think we’re bigger fools too for sticking around and suffering the consequences, don’t you?” Mariah asked.
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Finding her sister might not be the only problem KATHRYN has ,seems like MARIAH is not being truthful about who she really is.Beware of strangers bearing gifts in the form of friendship.thanks