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"That is proper"
"But oes deeper than yours!"
"What difference -"
"I have no first person singular, Stil I am a multiple person with ine That&039;s my burden, Stil I&039;e which resists newness and change Yet Muad&039;Dib changed all this" He gestured at the desert, his arar turned to peer at the Shield Wall A village had been built beneath the wall since Muad&039;Dib&039;s ti spread plant life into the desert Stilgar stared at the e? Yes There was an aligne, a trueness which offended hirit particles under his stillsuit That village was an offense against the thing this planet had been Suddenly Stilgar wanted a circular howling of wind to leap over the dunes and obliterate that place The sensation left hi
Leto said: "Have you noticed, Stil, that the new stillsuits are of sloppy ar stopped hi: Have I not said it? Instead he said: "Our people grow increasingly dependent upon the pills"
Leto nodded The pills shifted body temperature, reduced water loss They were cheaper and easier than stillsuits But they inflicted the user with other burdens, a them a tendency to slowed reaction time, occasional blurred vision
"Is that e caar asked "To discuss stillsuit manufacture?"
"Why not?" Leto asked "Since you will not face what I er edged his voice
"Because she plays upon the old Fre ine"
"You make much out of little! She&039;s a proper Fremen"
"Ahhh, then the proper Fremen holds to the ways of the past and I have an ancient past Stil, were I to give free reign to this inclination, I would demand a closed society, completely dependent upon the sacred ways of the past I would controlthat this fosters new ideas, and new ideas are a threat to the entire structure of life Each little planetary polis would go its oay, beco what it would Finally the Eht of its differences"
Stilgar tried to s in a dry throat These ords which Muad&039;Dibto the But if one allowed any change He shook his head
"The past ht way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circuree that circue Howthe desert and not seeing it Muad&039;Dib had walked there The flat was a place of golden shadows as the sun cliritty rivulets crested in dust vapors The dust fog which usually hung over Habbanya Ridge was visible in the far distance now, and the desert between presented his eyes with dunes dih the smoky shimmer of heat he saw the plants which crept out froe Muad&039;Dib had caused life to sprout in that desolate place Copper, gold, red flowers, yelloers, rust and russet, grey-green leaves, spikes and harsh shadows beneath bushes Thein the air
Presently Stilgar said: "I am only a leader of Fre what you said, you said it," Leto said
Stilgar scowled Once, long ago, Muad&039;Dib had chided him thus
"You remember it, don&039;t you, Stil?" Leto asked "We were under Habbanya Ridge and the Sardaukar captain - remember him: Aramsham? He killed his friend to save hi the lives of Sardaukar who&039;d seen our secret ways Finally you said they would surely reveal what they&039;d seen; theywhat you said, you said it&039; And you were hurt You told him you were only a sis"
Stilgar stared down at Leto We were under Habbanya Ridge! We! This this child, not even conceived on that day, knehat had taken place in exact detail, the kind of detail which could only be known to someone who had been there It was only another proof that these Atreides children could not be judged by ordinary standards
"Now you will listen to me," Leto said "If I die or disappear in the desert, you are to flee from Sietch Tabr I command it You are to take Ghani and -"
"You are not yet my Duke! You&039;re a a child!"
"I&039;m an adult in a child&039;s flesh," Leto said He pointed down to a narrow crack in the rocks below them "If I die here, it will be in that place You will see the blood You will know then Take ar said "You&039;re not co now and you -"
"Stil! You cannot hold e Reme Maker was co There was no way to save the crawler from the worm And my father was annoyed that he couldn&039;t save that crawler But Gurney could think only of the men he&039;d lost in the sand Remember what he said: &039;Your father would&039;ve been more concerned for the e you to save people They&039;re s And Ghani is the most precious of all because, without me, she is the only hope for the Atreides"
"I will hear nodown the rocks toward the oasis across the sand He heard Leto following Presently Leto passed hi back, said: "Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young wole human, as the life of a family or an entire people, persists as memory My peopleprocess They are people as organism, and in this persistent memory they store more and more experiences in a subliminal reservoir Humankind hopes to call upon thisuniverse But much that is stored can be lost in that chance play of accident which we call "fate" Much rated into evolutionary relationships, and thusenvirones which inflict theet! This is the special value of the Kwisatz Haderach which the Bene Gesserits never suspected: the Kwisatz Haderach cannot forget -The Book of Leto, After Harq al-Ada
Stilgar could not explain it, but he found Leto&039;s casual observation profoundly disturbing It ground through his awareness all the way back across the sand to Sietch Tabr, taking precedence over everything else Leto had said out there on The Attendant
Indeed, the young wo lowed serenely ater-richness Their eyes looked outward and far They exposed their features often without any pretense of stillsuitlines of catchtubes Frequently they did not even wear stillsuits in the open, preferring the new garestions of the lithe young bodies beneath
Such huainst the new beauty of the landscape By contrast with the old Arrakis, the eye could be spellbound by its collision with a tiny clu red-brown rocks And the old sietch warrens of the cave-metropolis culture, complete with elaborate seals andway to open villages built often of e destroyed? Stilgar wondered, and he stu breed Old Freality of their planet - water wasted into the air for nobricks The water for a single one-fa would keep an entire sietch alive for a year
The new buildings even had transparent s to let in the sun&039;s heat and to desiccate the bodies within Such s opened outward
New Fremen within their er were enclosed and huddling in a sietch Where the new vision ar could feel this The new vision joined Fremen to the rest of the Imperial universe, conditioned them to unbounded space Once they&039;d been tied to water-poor Arrakis by their enslavement to its bitter necessities They&039;d not shared that open-mindedness which conditioned inhabitants on es contrasting with his own doubts and fears In the old days it had been a rare Freht leave Arrakis to begin a new life on one of the water-rich worlds They&039;d not even been per back as the youth walked ahead Leto had spoken of prohibitions against movement off-planet Well, that had always been a reality for most other-worlders, even where the dream was permitted as a safety valve But planetary serfdom had reached its peak here on Arrakis Fremen had turned inward, barricaded in their minds as they were barricaded in their cave warrens
The veryof sietch - a place of sanctuary in times of trouble - had been perverted here into a monstrous confinement for an entire population
Leto spoke the truth: Muad&039;Dib had changed all that
Stilgar felt lost, He could feel his old beliefs cru The neard vision produced life which desired towomen are this year"
The old ways (My ways! he adnore all history except that which turned inward onto their own travail The old Frerations, their flights froovernment had followed the stated policy of the old Iress, of evolution Prosperity had been dangerous to the old Imperiuar realized that these things were equally dangerous to the course which Alia was setting
Again Stilgar stumbled and fell farther behind Leto
In the old ways and old religions, there&039;d been no future, only an endless now Before Muad&039;Dib, Stilgar saw, the Fremen had been conditioned to believe in failure, never in the possibility of accomplishment Well they&039;d believed Liet-Kynes, but he&039;d set a forty-generation timescale That was no accomplishment; that was a dream which, he sa, had also turned inward
Muad&039;Dib had changed that!
During the Jihad, Fremen had learned hty-first Padishah of House Corrino to occupy the Golden Lion Throne and reign over this I place for those policies which he hoped to iovernors on Arrakis had cultivated a persistent pessimism to bolster their power base They&039;dFremen, became familiar with numerous cases of injustice and insoluble probleht to think of themselves as a helpless people for who wo back, Stilgar began to wonder how the youth had set these thoughts flowing - and just by uttering a seear found hi Alia and his own role on the Council in an entirely different way
Alia was fond of saying that old ways gave ground slowly Stilgar admitted to hiuely reassuring Change was dangerous Invention must be suppressed Individual willpower must be denied What other function did the priesthood serve than to deny individual will?
Alia kept saying that opportunities for open coeable liy could only be used to confine populations - just as it had served its ancient y had to be rooted in ritual Otherwise otherwise
Again Stilgar stu beneath the apricot orchard which grew along the floater Stilgar heard his feet rass!
What can I believe? Stilgar asked hieneration to believe that individuals needed a profound sense of their own li element in a secure society People had to know the boundaries of their ti with the sietch as a ? A sense of enclosure should pervade every individual choice - should fence in the faovernar came to a stop and stared across the orchard at Leto The youth stood there, regarding hiar wondered
And the old Fremen Naib tried to fall back on the traditional catechisle fore of ork and ill not work The model for life, for the coht up to and beyond the peaks of government - that model had to be the sietch and its counterpart in the sand: Shai-Hulud The giant sandas surely a most formidable creature, but when threatened it hid in the iar told hiovern men and women were beautiful
And they remembered the words of Muad&039;Dib as he deposed Shadda life to the E life to the I to , headed toward the sietch entrance slightly to Leto&039;s right The youth , Stilgar reminded himself: "just as individuals are born, mature, breed, and die, so do societies and civilizations and governe The beautiful young Fremen knew this They could look outward and see it, prepare for it
Stilgar was forced to stop It was either that or walk right over Leto
The youth peered up at him owlishly, said: "You see, Stil? Tradition isn&039;t the absolute guide you thought it was"
A Fre froar, the Co you to do this," Alia said "But I must insure that there&039;s an empire for Paul&039;s children to inherit There&039;s no other reason for the Regency"
Alia turned fro toilet She looked at her husband,how he absorbed these words Duncan Idaho deserved careful study in thesefar erous than the one-time swordmaster of House Atreides The outer appearance reoat hair over sharp dark features - but in the long years since his awakening froone an inner metamorphosis
She wondered now, as she had wondered ht have hidden in the secret loneliness of him Before the Tleilaxu had worked their subtle science on him, Duncan&039;s reactions had borne clear labels for the Atreides - loyalty, fanatic adherence to the er and swift to recover He had been iainst House Harkonnen And he had died saving Paul But the Tleilaxu had bought his body frorown a zombie-katrundo: the flesh of Duncan Idaho, but none of his conscious ift, a human computer for Paul, a fine tool equipped with a hypnotic compulsion to slay his owner The flesh of Duncan Idaho had resisted that compulsion and, in the intolerable stress, his cellular past had coerous to think of hihts Better to think of hihola naet not the slightest gli there in herhies in her, nor conceal from him the transparency of her iven him were cruel in their ability to penetrate deception They liure, and he could not stand to see her thus
"Why do you turn away?" Alia asked
"I ," he said "The Lady Jessica is an Atreides"
"And your loyalty is to House Atreides, not to me," Alia pouted