"Oh, certainly. A few of them may surprise you." Under normal circumstances, Dax would have been very concerned with the preservation of the time line. But Chance was as good as her word, and any case, she'd dated a space doctor. Her opportunity to lead a temporally clean lifestyle had long since faded.

As they walked through the exhibit, Dax pointed out two species of Heloderma that would soon spontaneously evolve, thanks to a rather humorous encounter with a plasma experiment gone awry. "For months afterward, the entire state of New Mexico smelled like cabbage," Dax elaborated, as the doors opened to the dark hallway of the nocturnal animals exhibit.

For a moment, it looked as if the walls themselves were shaking. Then suddenly, a swarm of vampire bats, somehow set free from their cages, surrounded Jadzia, wholly ignoring her colleagues. If the Trill had made any noise of protest, it would have been drowned out by the bats' high screeched attempts at sonar guidance echoing in the small room.

A moment later the animals had all settled, quite comfortably, along Dax's head, shoulders, and arms. She turned to Henry and Chance with a bemused smile. "Well. This is certainly an interactive exhibit!"