Garak hadn’t intended to lay hands on the young doctor when he’d approached him.

The touch was innocent to human and Bajoran eyes. Well, as innocent as any Cardassian touching a stranger could be perceived…. But to another Cardassian, it would have been aggressive, proprietary. The staking of a claim.

But there was only Garak. And the exhibitionist little thrill he took in the unacknowledged intimacy of the gesture.