snippet for pip (pippet)
Ziyal’s condition starts to improve two days after Dukat escapes on the way to his trial, which fact Kira takes mean delight in. She figures it for a small sin set against the delight she takes in the girl’s recovery. It’s like watching the shadow of massed clouds move off a landscape, how life re-enters her face: the first day her eyes twitch visibly beneath her eyelids. The first day she sighs in sleep.