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"Yes, Lord" Moneo bowed and backed away a step

"One aze fixed on Leto&039;s face

"You are puzzled, Moneo," Leto said "Sometimes you do not knohat to think ofme these little dibs and dabs and you wonder: Does he already know this? If he does, why do I bother? But I have ordered you to report such things, Moneo Is your obedience not instructive?"

Moneo started to shrug and thought better of it His lips trembled

"Ti depends upon where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear The measure of it is found in consciousness itself"

After a long silence, Moneo ventured: "Is that all, Lord?"

"No, it is not all Siona will receive today a package delivered to her by a Guild courier Nothing is to interfere with delivery of that package Do you understand?"

"What is what is in the package, Lord?"

"Soto interfere There is no e"

"How how did you knohat I feared was in the"

"Because you fear the spice It could extend your life, but you avoid it"

"I fear its other effects, Lord"

"A bountiful nature has decreed that e will unveil for some of us unexpected depths of the psyche, yet you fear this?"

"I ae h a peculiar process of internal revelation"

"I have only to remember the way you tested me, Lord"

"Do you not see the necessity for you to sense the Golden Path?"

"That is not what I fear, Lord"

"You fear the other astonish which made me make my choice"

"I have only to look at you, Lord, and know that fear We Atreides" He broke off, his mouth dry

"You do not want all of these memories of ancestors and the others who flock within me!"

"Sometimes sometimes, Lord, I think the spice is the Atreides curse!"

"Do you wish that I had never occurred?"

Moneo ree has its values, Moneo The Guild navigators need it And without it, the Bene Gesserit would degenerate into a helpless band of whining females!"

"We must live with it or without it, Lord I know that"

"Very perceptive, Moneo But you choose to live without it"

"Do I not have that choice, Lord?"

"For now"

"Lord, what do you"

"There are twenty-eight different words for e in common Galach They describe it by its intended use, by its dilution, by its age, by whether it cah theft or conquest, whether it was the dower gift for a male or for a female, and in many other ways is it named What do you make of this, Moneo?"

"We are offered many choices, Lord"

"Only where the spice is concerned?"

Moneo&039;s brorinkled in thought, then: "No"

"You so seldom say &039;no&039; inyour lips form around the word"

Moneo&039;s mouth twitched in an atteo now to the Lady Hwi I will give you one parting piece of advice which may help"

Moneo paid studious attention to Leto&039;s face

"Drug knowledge originated mostly with rowth of e Catholic Bible, thus you know the story of Eve and the apple Here&039;s an interesting fact about that story: Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple Adam was first and he learned by this to put the bla about how our societies find a structural necessity for sub-groups"

Moneo tipped his head slightly to the left "Lord, how does this help ular multiplicity of this universe drawsof ultimate beauty

- The Stolen Journals LETO HEARD Moneo in the antechamber just before Hwi entered the sreen pantaloons tightly tied at the ankles with darker green bows to reen could be seen under her black cloak

She appeared cal invited, choosing a golden cushion rather than the red one she had occupied earlier It had taken less than an hour for Moneo to bring her Leto&039;s acute hearing detected Moneo fidgeting in the anteroonal which sealed the arched doorway there

"So has disturbed Moneo," Hwi said "He tried very hard not to reveal this to me, but the more he tried to soothe hten you?"

"Oh, no He did say soh He said that I must remember it at all times, that the God Leto is a different person to each of us"

"How is this interesting?" Leto asked

"The interesting thing is the question for which this was the preface He said he often wonders what part we play in creating that difference in you?"

"That is interesting"

"I think it is a truthful insight," Hwi said "Why have you summoned me?"

"At one tier ive me I will refer to the: "At one ti a weapon-a type of hunter-seeker, self-propelled death with awhich would seek out life and reduce that life to its inorganic , Lord"

"I know that The lxians do not recognize thattotally iven ti left, no life at all"

"Sometimes I think they are mad," she said

"Anteac&039;s opinion That is the ied in an endeavor which they are concealing"

"Even fro the Reverend Mother Anteac to investigate foryou can about the place where you spent your childhood Omit no detail, no matter how small Anteac will help you remember We want every sound, every smell, the shapes and nas of your skin The slightest thing may be vital"

"You think it is the place of conceal this weapon in"

"No, but this will be our excuse for investigating the place where you were born"

She opened her radually formed a smile, then: "My Lord is devious I will speak to the Reverend Mother iesture

"We ive the appearance of haste," he said

She sank back onto the cushion

"Each of us is different in the way of Moneo&039;s observation," he said "Genesis does not stop Your god continues creating you"

"What will Anteac find? You know, don&039;t you?"

"Let us say that I have a strong conviction Now, you have not once mentioned the subject which I broached earlier Have you no questions?"

"You will provide the answers as I require them" It was a statement full of such trust that it stopped Leto&039;s voice He could only look at her, realizing how extraordinary was this accomplishment of the Ixians-this human Hwi remained precisely true to the dictates of her personally chosen morality She was comely, warm and honest and possessed of an euish in those hoine the dismay of her Bene Gesserit teachers when confronted by this immovable core of self-honesty The teachers obviously had been reduced to adding a touch here, an ability there, everything strengthening that pohich prevented her fro a Bene Gesserit How that must have rankled!

"Lord," she said, "I would know the motives which forced you to choose your life"

"First, you must understand what it is like to see our future"

"With your help, I will try"

"Nothing is ever separated fro futures is a vision of a continuu beneath a waterfall You see them and then they vanish into the streah the bubbles never were That stream is estured at his body= "changed that?"

"It is changing The change comes not only from the manner of my life but from the manner of my death"

"You kno you will die?"

"Not how I know only the Golden Path in which it will occur"

"Lord, I do not"

"It is difficult to understand, I knoill die four deaths the death of the flesh, the death of the soul, the death of the myth and the death of reason And all of these deaths contain the seed of resurrection"

"You will return froone, ill happen to your religion?"

"All religions are a single communion The spectrum remains unbroken within the Golden Path It is only that humans see first one part and then another Delusions can be called accidents of the senses"

"People will still worship you," she said

"Yes"

"But when forever ends, there will be anger," she said "There will be denial Some will say you were just an ordinary tyrant"

"Delusion," he agreed

A lu for a e the" She shook her head

"Life will continue"

"I believe that, Lord, but how?"

"Each cycle is a reaction to the preceding cycle If you think about the shape of my Empire, then you know the shape of the next cycle"

She looked away fro I learned about your Faestured blindly in his direction without looking at him= "only with a selfless motive I do not think I truly know the shape of your Eh"

"Leto&039;s Golden Peace?"

"There is less peace than so back at hi deterred it

"This is the time of the stole cell expands"

"But so," she said