"Hey, sometimes you get the best people from the folks who just show up for entertainment or the hell of it," Nerys says, thinking of her resistance cell. "Sometimes people don't know they have a real knack for something until they try it, and they've never had a reason to do it."

The heat makes her dip her feet back into the water after a few minutes, though not in the direct downstream path of where Mark is washing. She's got a couple of blisters at the moment, and she doesn't want them to get infected. "Have you been anywhere on Earth that had weather like this?" she asks. "Where it can be so cold and so hot within a few months?"

Nerys can pinpoint this kind of climate on Bajor with her eyes closed, but that doesn't do much for understanding what part of Earth this is like. Everyone seems to have a different theory.