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"Yes&039;"
"Should anything be done about the Tleilaxu stories which"
"Nothing"
She stared at hi their earlier conversation
The seeds of dissolution were being planted
"It is my fear, Lord, that I eaken you," she said
"Then you then you if we diminish belief in the God&039; Leto?"
He heard a hint of Malky in her voice, thatWe never completely escape tine teachers of our childhood
"Your question begs the answer," he said "Many will continue to worship according to n Others will believe the lies"
"Lord would you ask me to lie for you?"
"Of course not But I will ask you to reht wish to speak"
"But if they revile"
"You will not protest"
Once ed to touch them, but they ater painful water
"It must be done this way," he said
"Will you explain it to one, they must call me Shaitan, the E the Golden Path"
"Lord, could the anger not be directed at me alone? I would not"
"No! The lxians ht I truly love you I cannot help it"
"I do not wish to cause you pain!" The words renched from her
"What&039;s done is done Do not mourn it"
"Help one, that, too, will fade into the inevitable past A long time will pass Then, on a far-distant day, my journals will be found"
"Journals?" She was shaken by the seeuinal journals ait and wait and wait I have hidden them well"
"And when they are discovered?"
"People will learn that I was so quite different fro hush "I already knohat they will learn"
"Yes,Hwi, I think you do"
"You are neither devil nor god, but soain because your presence removes the need"
She brushed tears froerous you are?"
Alar of her ars of a saint," he said _"Do you understand how painful it can be to find a saint in the wrong place and the wrong time?"
She shook her head
"People have to be prepared for saints," he said "Otherwise, they siars and weakened sycophants forever in the shadow of the saint People are destroyed by this because it nurtures only weakness"
After a ht, she nodded, then: "Will there be saints when you are gone?"
"That&039;s the purpose of hter, Siona, will she"
"For now she is only a rebel As to sainthood, ill let her decide Perhaps she will only do what she was bred to do"
"What is that, Lord?"
"Stop calling me Lord," he said "We will be Worm and wife Call me Leto if you wish Lord interferes"
"Yes, L Leto But what is"
"Siona was bred to rule There is danger in such breeding When you rule, you gain knowledge of power This can lead into impetuous irresponsibility, into painful excesses and that can lead to the terrible destroyer-wild hedonism"
"Siona would"
"All we know about Siona is that she can remain dedicated to a particular performance, to the pattern which fills her senses She is necessarily an aristocrat, but aristocracy looks mostly to the past That&039;s a failure You don&039;t seesiod with the two opposed faces" She wet her lips with her tongue "Are you Janus, Leto?"
"I a less I have been, for example, what my administrators admire most-the decision-maker whose every decision can be made to work"
"But if you fail theainst me, yes"
"Will Siona replace you if"
"Ahhh, what an enormous if! You observe that Siona threatens my person However, she does not threaten the Golden Path There is also the fact that my Fish Speakers have a certain attach"
"And I am her favorite poseur, the sha the needs of his people"
"Could I not talk to her and"
"No! YouProods have this problenore i i"
"Could you not reason with her and"
"Never atteht!"
"But when you know they are wrong"
"Do you believe in me?"
"Yes"
"And if soreatest evil of all tiry I would" She broke off
"Reason is valuable," he said, "only when it perforround of the universe"
Her brows drew together in thought It fascinated Leto to sense the arousal of her awareness "Ahhh" She breathed the word
"No reasoning creature will ever again be able to deny the Leto experience," he said "I see your understanding begin Beginnings! They are what life is all about!"
She nodded
No arguht When she sees the tracks, she follows the as there is life, every ending is a beginning," he said "And I would save huain, she nodded The tracks still led onward
"This is why no death in the perpetuation of humankind can be a complete failure," he said "This is why a birth touches us so deeply This is why the ic death is the death of a youth"
"Does Ix still threaten your Golden Path? I&039;ve always known they conspired in so evil"
They conspire Hwi does not hear the inner e of her oords She has no need to hear it
He stared at her, full of the marvel that i She possessed a fornized as merely non-self-conscious The honesty was not her core, it i herself
"Then I will arrange a performance in the plaza to Face Dancers Afterward, our betrothal will be announced" -= Let there be no doubt that I ae of our ancestors, the arena in which they exercise my moments They are my cells and I am their body This is the favrashi of which I speak, the soul, the collective unconscious, the source of archetypes, the repository of all trau My samhadi is their sae distilled is mfr inheritance Those billions are my one
- The Stolen Journals THE FACE DANCER perfor, and afterward cah the Festival City
"It has been centuries since he took a bride!"
"More than a thousand years,of the Fish Speakers had been brief They cheered him loudly, but they were disturbed
"You areof Siaynoq?
Leto thought the Face Dancers performed well despite their obvious terror Garments had been found in the depths of a Fremen ed green hawks appliqued across the shoulders at the back-uniforms of Muad&039;Dib&039;s itinerant priests The Face Dancers had put on dark, seamed faces with these robes and perforions had spread their religion through the Ereen jade necklace, sat beside Leto on the Royal Cart throughout the ritual
Once, she leaned close to his face and asked: "Is that not a parody?"
"To me, perhaps"
"Do the Face Dancers know?"
"They suspect"
"Then they are not as frightened as they appear"
"Oh, yes, they are frightened It&039;s just that they are braver than most people expect them to be"
"Bravery can be so foolish," she whispered
"And vice-versa"
She had favored hi her attention to the performance Almost two hundred Face Dancers had survived unscathed All of thes and posturings could fascinate the eye It was possible to watch theet the bloody preliminaries to this day
Leto remembered this as he lay alone in his small reception room shortly before noon when Moneo arrived Moneo had seen the Reverend Mother Anteac onto a Guild lighter, had conferred with the Fish Speaker Coht&039;s violence, had ht to the Citadel and back to make sure Siona was under a secure watch and that she had not been implicated in the Embassy attack He had returned to Onn just after the betrothal announce
Moneo was furious Leto had never seen hiry He stormed into the room and stopped only two meters from Leto&039;s face