can't stop thinking about how they got from "come by my shop for a quickie" to "help me foil this terrorist plot" to "scattered like crumbs all over this table we regularly share." like obviously every time one of them is sitting alone somewhere and the other one spots them it's like *HOMING BEACON ACTIVATED* *ENGAGE TRACTOR BEAM* as seen in this moment from "cardassians" i noticed while i was making gifs the other day

so i guess that's literally it. they just start gossiping regularly in the replimat and at some point a book club spontaneously breaks out. insane

p.s. garak definitely knows he's been spotted here. he's doing the BE COOL, BE COOL, HE'S WALKING OVER thing. this scene is so fucking funny, and not just because he gets his hand bitten in a minute