Have our peaple always been shape-shifters?
Or was there a time when we were like the solids?

Eons ago, we were like them limited to one form, but then... we evoleved.

Ah...

On the homeworld are you always in the Link or do you sometimes take solid form?

We prefer the Link but, on ocasion, it is interesting to exist as something else, a tree perhaps... Acloud in the sky.

Ah... a cloud.
How many of us are there?

Oh... so many questions, Odo.

I'm sorry but there's still so much that isn't clear to me yet.

If you link with me again everything will be made clear to you.

You have to understand that the Link is very overwhelming for me.

Right now, it's easier to talk. But words are so clumsy so imprecise.

Even so.

As you wish.

You haven't told me your name.

What use would I have for a name.

To differentiate yourself from the others.

I don't.

But you are a separate being, aren't you?

In a sence.

When you return to the Link what will become of the entity I'm talking to right now.

The drop becomes the ocean.

And if you choose to take solid form again?

The ocean becomes a drop.

Ah...
Yes.
I think I'm beginning to understand.

Then you can answer your own question.
How many of us are there?

One. And many.
It depends on how you look at it.

Very good.
You are beginning to understand.
But there's so much you don't know.

Tell me.

Oh.
Word are insufficient. Link with me again.
It is the only way I can give you the understanding you seek.

I can't.

Why not?

I promised Kira.

She is a solid.
This has nothing todo with her.
This is about you about what you want.