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"They won&039;t abandon that search," she said, "but they randmother could be the instrument"
"There&039;s another way," he said
"Yes - the two of us ht coarandmother, at that I don&039;t like that way"
"Nor I"
"Still, it&039;s not the first time a royal line has tried to"
"It repels
She felt the movee alchehts had been "The power of the Kwisatz Haderach reed
"Used in their way," he said
In that instant, day cae point They sensed the heat beginning Colors leaped forth froreen leaves sent spiked shadows along the ground The low ht of Dune&039;s silvery sun revealed the verdant oasis full of golden and purple shadows in the well of the sheltering cliffs
Leto stood, stretched
"The Golden Path, then," Ghani how their father&039;s last vision ainst thethere
Leto reverted to the ancient language they used for privacy: "L&039;ii ani howr samis sed itself in their awareness Literally: We will accoh only one ether, they returned through the uards roused themselves and fell in behind as the twins headed toward their own quarters The throngs parted before thelances with the guards Spending the night alone above the desert was an old Frees All the Uil Paul Muad&039;Dib had done it and Alia Now the royal twins had begun
Leto noted the difference, mentioned it to Ghanima
"They don&039;t knoe&039;ve decided for them," she said "They don&039;t really know"
Still in the private language, he said: "It requires the "
Ghanihts Then: "In that ti, itof the to"
In the ancient tongue it was an extre a pronominal object separated from the infinitive It was a syntax which allowed each set of internal phrases to turn upon itself, becos, all definite and quite distinct but subtly interrelated In part, what she had said was that they risked death with Leto&039;s plan and, real or sie would be like death, literally: "funeralto the whole which pointed accusatively at whoever survived to report, that is: act out the living part Any ate the entire plan, and Leto&039;s Golden Path would becoreed He parted the hangings for the their attendants paused only for a heartbeat as the twins crossed to the arched passage which led into the quarters assigned to the Lady Jessica
"You are not Osiris" Ghanima reminded him
"Nor will I try to be"
Ghanima took his arm to stop him "Alia darsatay haunus m&039;smow," she warned
Leto stared into his sister&039;s eyes Indeed, Alia&039;s actions did give off a foul srandmother must have noted He smiled appreciatively at Ghaniue with Fremen superstition to call up a most basic tribal oht, was the harbinger of death at the hands of deoddess of death to the people whose tongue they now spoke
"We Atreides have a reputation for audacity to maintain," he said
"So we&039;ll take e need," she said
"It&039;s that or becoency," he said "Alia would enjoy that"
"But our plan" She let it trail off
Our plan, he thought She shared it completely now He said: "I think of our plan as the toil of the shaduf"
Ghanih which they&039;d passed, s with their sense of eternal beginning She liked the way Leto had ee Toil of the shaduf It was a pledge He&039;d called their plan agricultural work of a very , pruning - yet with the Fremen implication that this labor occurred si the richness of the soul
Ghanima studied her brother as they hesitated here in the rock passage It had grown increasingly obvious to her that he was pleading on two levels: one, for the Golden Path of his vision and their father&039;s, and two, that she allow hierous htened her Was there more to his private vision that he had not shared? Could he see hiure to lead humankind into a rebirth - like father, like son? The cult of Muad&039;Dib had turned sour, ferement and the unbridled license of a military priesthood which rode the Fre so from me, she realized
She reviehat he had told her of his dreaht walk around for hours afterward in a daze The dreaht yellow daylight, yet there is no sun Then I realize that I aht shines out as a Golden Path When I realize this, Ito see ure, a child&039;s draith zigzag lightning lines for eyes, stick legs and stick arms There is a scepter in my left hand, and it&039;s a real scepter - ure which holds it The scepter moves, and this terrifies me As it moves, I feelI realize then that- an armor which moves as my skin moves I cannot see this arives th of ten thousand men"
As Ghanima stared at him, Leto tried to pull away, to continue their course toward Jessica&039;s quarters Ghanima resisted
"This Golden Path could be no better than any other path," she said
Leto looked at the rock floor between the return of Ghanima&039;s doubts "I must do it," he said
"Alia is possessed," she said "That could happen to us It could already have happened and we aze "Alia resisted That gave the poithin her their strength By her own strength she was overcome We&039;ve dared to search within, to seek out the old languages and the old knowledge We&039;re already aams of those lives within us We don&039;t resist; we ride with theht It&039;s what I had to learn"
"He said nothing of that within me"
"You listened to our mother It&039;s e -"
"And I alhtened his face
"Yes but now I think she guards ued with her" And Ghaniht about the reflected mother-within, said: "Our mother exists now for me in the alam al-mythal with the others, but she has tasted the fruit of hell Now I can listen to her without fear As to the others"
"Yes," he said "And I listened tothe counsel of the grandfather for whom I was named Perhaps the narandmother of the Golden Path?"
Leto waited while an attendant pressed past the the Lady Jessica&039;s breakfast A strong smell of spice filled the air as the attendant passed
"She lives in us and in her own flesh," Leto said "Her counsel can be consulted twice"
"Not by ain"
"Then by one back to the Sisterhood"
"Indeed Bene Gesserit at her beginning, her own creature in the middle, and Bene Gesserit at the end But remember that she, too, carries Harkonnen blood and is closer to it than we are, that she has experienced a for which we have"
"A very shallow form," Ghanima said "And you haven&039;t answered my question"
"I don&039;t think I&039;ll mention the Golden Path"
"I ods! We need a space for some humanity!"
"Have I ever denied it?"
"No" She took a deep breath and looked away fro the argument by its tone but unable to understand the ancient words
"We have to do it," he said "If we fail to act, we ht just as well fall upon our knives" He used the Fre of "spill our water into the tribal cistern"
Once ree But she felt trapped within a construction oflay across their path no matter what they did Ghaniarnered froth which she gave those other psyches by using the data of their experiences They lurked like harpies within her, shadow de in ambush
Except for her mother, who had held the fleshly power and had renounced it Ghani she would have lost but for Leto&039;s persuasiveness
Leto said his Golden Path led out of this trap Except for the nagging realization that he withheld so from his vision, she could only accept his sincerity He needed her fertile creativity to enrich the plan
"We&039;ll be tested," he said, knohere her doubts led
"Not in the spice"
"Perhaps even there Surely, in the desert and in the Trial of Possession"
"You never mentioned the Trial of Possession!" she accused "Is that part of your dream?"
He tried to s in a dry throat, cursed this betrayal "Yes"