but the idea of our spirited Nerys abandoning her heritage and becoming a Cardassian is all too easy to imagine in the situation you've spun out.

Yes, that is exactly what I was intending to be disturbing. As I said to mylexie, this Nerys becomes the embodiment of everything "our" Nerys would abhorr, but not in an Evil!Indendant from the Mirrorverse kind of way. She turns her back on her people, does not believe in the Prophets, longs to be a Cardassian and ultimately becomes one, and genuinenly loves Dukat - but all for plausible reasons.

I like how Napreem is a doctor in this one-- I'm pretty sure there isn't any canon about it, but it's a nice lead in.

As far as I'm aware of, there is no canon whatsoever on what Naprem did for a living before meeting Dukat. It's interesting that Ziyal has artistic gifts, which, considering that Meru was originally an icon painter, I think one fanfic has used to postulate that Naprem and Meru were really one and the same, just with Meru given another identity for whatsoever reason, but that's too much of a Victorian Novel kind of stretch for me. Hence the doctor idea.

And I like the mention of Odo.

I hoped you would having put it in especially for you. kathyh has the entire saga for beta-reading now, and as soon as she's done, I can post it on Bajorama as well. Incidentally, I'm not sure about the spelling of the names of Kira's father and brothers - I wrote it as I heard it in the episode. If you've got the DS9 Companion at hand, could you look it up for me?