"You must understand, it's not like eating a human child." He takes a sip of tea before continuing, "There is very little accessible protein on their world and they regularly produce a significant number of eggs, which if tended can hatch into a larval stage. These larvae are not 'Tendu', are not people until they've pupated a second time - an act that requires an additional fertilization." Bashir's 'verse is already so much weirder than Duplicity and from his tone of voice, he doesn't judge these people in the slightest.

"Occasionally larvae do get out of their pools, and they can grow into larger creatures, but they never develop into Tendu."