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"He has roots as deep as uing withthat this did not reer "Oh, no, Lord But I always try to tell you truly what I believe is happening"

"I will tell you what is happening He is courting her"

"But she initiates their s, Lord"

"Then you knew about this!"

"I did not know you had absolutely prohibited it, Lord"

Leto spoke in a ly clever He sees into their souls and makes them do what he wants It has always been that ith the Duncans"

"I did not know you had prohibited all s between them, Lord!" Moneo&039;s voice was alerous than any of the others," Leto said "It is the fault of our times"

"Lord, the Tleilaxu do not have a successor for him ready to deliver"

"And we need this one?"

"You said it yourself, Lord It is a paradox which I do not understand, but you did say it"

"How long until there could be a replacement?"

"At least a year, Lord Shall I inquire as to a specific date?"

"Do it today"

"He may hear about it, Lord The previous one did"

"I do not want it to happen this way, Moneo!"

"I know, Lord"

"And I dare not speak of this to Noree," Leto said "The Duncan is not for her Yet, I cannot hurt her!" This last was almost a wail

Moneo stood in awed silence

"Can&039;t you see this?" Leto demanded "Moneo, help me"

"I see that it is different with Noree," Moneo said "But I do not knohat to do"

"What is different?" Leto&039;s voice had a penetrating quality which cut right through Moneo

"I mean your attitude toward her, Lord It is different fro I have ever seen in you"

Moneo noted then the first signs-twitching in the God Elaze in the eyes Gods! The Wor! Moneo felt totally exposed A siainst a wall I must appeal to the human in him

"Lord," Moneo said, "I have read the accounts and heard your oords about your e to your sister, Ghanima"

"If only she ith me now," Leto said

"She was never your ?" Leto de of Leto&039;s hands had become a- spasmodic vibration

"She was I mean, Lord, that Ghanima was Harq al-Ada&039;s mate"

"Of course she was! All of you Atreides are descended fro you have not told me, Lord? Is it possible that is, with Hwi Noree could you ly Moneo wondered that their owner did not know it The glazing of the great blue eyes deepened

Moneo backed another step toward the door to the stairs leading down from this deadly place

"Do not question me about possibilities," Leto said, and his voice was hideously distant, gone soain, Lord," Moneo said He bowed hile pace from the door "I will speak to Noree, Lord and to the Duncan"

"Do what you can" Leto&039;s voice was far away in those interior chambers which only he could enter

Softly, Moneo let himself out of the door He closed it behind hi Ahhh, that was the closest ever

And the paradox re of the God Eht The Wor sounded froainst stone Moneo dared not open the door to investigate He pushed himself away fro -and went down the stairs,an easy breath until he reached ground level and the Fish Speaker guard there

"Is he disturbed?" she asked, looking up the stairs

Moneo nodded They both could hear the thuuard asked

"He is God and we are mortal," Moneo said This was an anshich usually satisfied Fish Speakers, but new forces were at work now

She looked directly at hi close to the surface of her soft features She was a relatively young woman with auburn hair and a face usually dominated by a turned-up nose and full lips, but now her eyes were hard and de Only a fool would turn his back on those eyes

"I did not disturb hireed Her look softened slightly

"But I would like to knoho or what did"

"I think he is ie," Moneo said "I think that&039;s all it is"

"Then hurry the day!" she said

"That&039;s what I&039; hall to his own area of the Citadel Gods! The Fish Speakers were becoerous as the God Emperor

That stupid Duncan! He puts us all in peril And Hwi Noree! What&039;s to be done about her?

- = The pattern of e of value for all political foroverne Govern as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained Monarchies have soood features beyond their star qualities They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the ement bureaucracy They can make speedy decisions when necessary They fit an ancient human demand for a parental (tribal/feudal) hierarchy where every person knows his place It is valuable to know your place, even if that place is teainst your will This is why I teach about tyranny in the best possible way by exae of eons, otten My Golden Path assures this Knowing ly careful about the powers you delegate to any government

- The Stolen Journals Leto PREPARED with patient care for his first privatewith Siona since her childhood banishment to the Fish Speaker schools in the Festival City He told Moneo that he would see her at the Little Citadel, a vantage tower he had built in the

central Sareer The site had been chosen to provide views of old and new and places between There were no roads to the Little Citadel Visitors arrived by &039;thopter Leto went there as though by ic &039;

With his own hands, in the early days of his ascendancy, Leto has used an Ixiana secret tunnel under the Sareer to his tower, doing all of the work himself In those days, a feild sandworms still roamed the desert He had lined his tunnel with massive walls of fused silica and had i water in the outer layers The tunnel anticipated his rowth and the requirement of his visions, In the early predawn hours of the day assigned to Siona, Leto descended to the crypt and gave orders to his guard that he was not to be disturbed by anyone His cart sped him down one of the crypt&039;s dark spokes where he opened a hidden portal, e in less than an hour at the Little Citadel

One of his delights was to go out alone onto the sand No cart Only his pre-worainst hih the dunes in the day&039;s first light sent up a wake of steaht himself to a stop only when he found a relatively dry pocket about five kilometers out He lay there at the center of an uncomfortable da shadow of the tohich stretched eastward from him across the dunes

From a distance, the three thousand meters of the tower could be seen as an i the sky Only the inspired blend of Leto&039;s coination made the structure conceivable One hundred and fifty ed as deeply under the sand as it cliht alloys kept it supple in the wind and resistant to sandblast abrasions

Leto enjoyed the place solist of personal rules which had to be met The rules added up to "Great Necessity"

For a few moments while he lay there, he could shed the loads of the Golden Path Moneo, good and reliable Moneo, would see that Siona arrived prohtfall Leto had a full day in which to relax and think, to play and pretend that he possessed no cares, to drink up the raw sustenance of the earth in a feeding frenzy which he could never indulge in at Onn or at the Citadel In those places, he was required to confine hies where only prescient caution kept hih, he could race through the sand and across it, feed and grow strong

Sand crunched beneath hi his body in pure ani restored, an electric sensation which sent h hiolden line up the side of the tower There was the smell of bitter dust in the air and an odor of distant spiny plants which had responded to the &039;s trace-dew Gently at first, then more rapidly, heabout Siona as he went

There could be no more delays She had to be tested Moneo knew this as well as Leto did

Just that , Moneo had said: "Lord, there is terrible violence in her"

"She has the beginnings of adrenalin addiction," Leto had said "It&039;s cold-turkey time"

"Cold what, Lord?"

"It&039;s an ancient expression It means she h a necessity shock"

"Oh I see"

For once, Leto realized, Moneo did see Moneo had gone through his own cold-turkey ti hard decisions unless those decisions are associated with immediate violence and the consequent sharp flow of adrenalin," Leto had explained

Moneo had held hireat peril"

"That&039;s the violence you see in Siona Even old people can cling to it, but the youngin it"

As he circled his tower in the growing light of the day, enjoying the feel of the sand even ht about the conversation He slowed his passage over the sand A wind froen and a burnt flint shis nified awareness to a new level

This preliht of the coht about the first examination of a horned adversary Siona possessed her own version of horns, although Moneo would ht no physical weapons to this encounter Leto had to be sure, though, that he knew Siona&039;s every strength and every weakness And he would have to create special susceptibilities in her wherever possible She had to be prepared for the test, her psychic muscles blunted by well-planted barbs

Shortly after noon, his worm-self satiated, Leto returned to the tower, crawled back onto his cart and lifted on suspensors to the very tip of a portal there which opened only at his cohout the rest of the day, he lay there in the aerie, thinking, plotting

The fluttering wings of an ornithopter whispered on the air just at nightfall to signal Moneo&039;s arrival

Faithful Moneo

Leto caused a landing-lip to extrude fros cupped It settled gently onto the lip Leto stared out through the gathering darkness Siona eed and darted in toward hiht She wore a white robe over a black unifornia She stole one look backhen she stopped just inside the tower, then she turned her attention to Leto&039;s bulk waiting on the cart almost at the center of the aerie The &039;thopter lifted away and jetted off into the darkness Leto left the lip extruded, the portal open

"There is a balcony on the other side of the tower," he said "We will go there"

"Why?"

Siona&039;s voice carried almost pure suspicion

"I&039;m told it&039;s a cool place," Leto said "And there is indeed a faint sensation of cold on my cheeks when I expose theht her closer to hiht view fronificent," Leto said

"Why are we here?"

"Because here ill not be overheard"

Leto turned his cart and moved it silently out to the balcony

The faintest of hidden illumination within the aerie showed her hison the southeast arc of the tower, a lacy railing at chest-height around the periaze around the open land

Leto sensed the waiting receptivity So was to be spoken here for her ears alone Whatever it was, she would listen and respond from the well of her own e of the Sareer where the manmade boundary as a low flat line just barely visible in the light of First Moon lifting above the horizon His amplified vision identified the distant hts froh road toward Tabur Village

He could call up a rew in thethe inner base of the wall His Museuardens there It was not like the old days when any inhabited place, even a tiny basin with a fe plants fed by a single cistern and windtrap, could appear lush by coe was a water-rich paradise when coe knew that just beyond the Sareer&039;s boundary wall the Idaho River slid southward in a long straight line which would be silver now in the ht Museum Fremen could not climb the wall&039;s sheer inner face, but they knew the water was there The earth knew, too If a Tabur inhabitant put an ear against the ground, the earth spoke with the sound of distant rapids

There would be nightbirds along the bankht on another world Dune had worked its evolutionary ic on them and they still lived at the mercies of the Sareer Leto had seen the birds draw dumb shadows across the water and, when they dipped to drink, there were ripples which the river took away