He gave a light laugh at the toast and his words “And you do it well” he said in a surprisingly matter of fact tone. Then Jack mentioned that little device on his wrist, curious he lifted forward against the table to get a better look. He reached out a gray hand towards the wristcuff, lightly brushing a few fingertips on it before the former time agent drew back to lounge in his chair “that’s a curious little device…some kind of mini-transporter?” A rift? That made one of his eyeridge raise in surprise “A rift you say?” It was clearly the little wheels in his brains were turning as he considered the rift and the wormhole, was there a connection between the two? “We have something similar where I come from…a wormhole or as the Bajorans call it the Celestial Temple” he said with just the hint of mockery at the religious title of the wormhole “It’s part of their superstitious beliefs” He shrugged his broad shoulders dismissively as he took another sip of his drink before continuing “But I suppose I shouldn’t talk too lowly of them…I did enjoy their company for many pleasurable years” he remarked with a nostalgic sigh and a light chuckle. For a moment he slipped into thought thinking of his mistresses and his offspring that came from one of those union, his daughter Ziyal. He did miss her, terribly, but he wouldn’t admit that weakness in front of the captain.
Dukat had to admit to himself there was something about this human captain but he couldn’t quite nail it down. Maybe it was that charming smile or maybe it was the old eyes that didn’t match his appearance. He certainly wasn’t terrible on the eyes for a human male either and he was terribly charming, to the point of making the powerful Cardassian nearly forget his little torment at being far from home and the ‘little conflict’ between his people and Jack’s. This captain definitely didn’t match any captain of Starfleet he had ever met, he was something more interesting that felt just as alien as he was. That contagious smile made the gul smile just as dazzling in return “I will have to take your word for it Captain..” Carefully he let a dry chuckle escape from the depths of his throat, tilting his head in a way that revealing more of that magnificent reptilian neck. “So your crew is here? More or less?” he remarked angling in his long throat so he was peering up at him with it.