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Now if only Duncan and Gurney can do their parts, she thought as she felt the gravel of a pathway beneath her feet, saw the golden light filtered by greenery

You will learn the integrated communication methods as you coestalten function which will overlay data paths in your awareness, resolving coue techniques which you already havetensions arising froent assembly of minutiae/data on specialized subjects Be warned Without ration, you can be iive to the o combinations from accurate infor together sent sparks of awareness through Leto He was surprised that he had turned his sensitivity to the point where he automatically identified the fabrics fro against the coarse hangings of a door curtain He turned toward the sound It caone minutes before As Leto turned, he saw his captor enter It was the same man who had taken him prisoner: the same dark strip of skin above the stillsuiteyes The man lifted a hand to his mask, slipped the catchtube from his nostrils, lowered the mask and, in the same motion, flipped his hood back Even before he focused on the scar of the inkvine whip along the nition was a totality in his awareness with the search for confir afterward Nolump of humanity, this warrior-troubadour, was Gurney Halleck!

Leto clenched his hands into fists, overconition No Atreides retainer had ever beenHe&039;d been Paul&039;s trusted confidant and teacher

He was the Lady Jessica&039;s servant

These recognitions and h Leto&039;s mind Gurney was his captor Gurney and Naether And Jessica&039;s hand was in it with them

"I understand you&039;vesir He has one function and one function only He&039;s the one capable of killing you should the need arise"

Leto responded automatically with his father&039;s tones: "So you&039;ve joined ht the -"

"Try none of your devil tricks on ainst therandmother&039;s orders Your education has been planned to the last detail It was she who approved my selection of Namri What comes next, painful as it may seem, is at her command"

"And what does she command?"

Halleck lifted a hand from the folds of his robe, exposed a Fremen injector, pried with blue fluid

Leto squirmed backward on the cot, was stopped by the rock wall As he moved, Naether they blocked the only exit

"I see you&039;ve recognized the spice essence," Halleck said "You&039;re to take the worh it Otherwise, what your father dared and you dare not would hang over you for the rest of your days"

Leto shook his head wordlessly This was the thing he and Ghaninorant fool! How could Jessica Leto felt the father-presence in histo strip away his defenses Leto wanted to shriek outrage, could notwhich his pre-born awarenessof immutable future with all of its fixity and its terrors Surely Jessica could not have ordered such an ordeal for her own grandson But her presence loouments Even the litany of fear was pressed upon hi: "I must not fear Fear is the s total obliteration I will face h one past"

With an oath already ancient when Chaldea was young, Leto tried toover hih he already existed in the trance, Leto saw Halleck&039;s hand lobe sparkled within the blue fluid The injector touched Leto&039;s left arh him, shot upward to theoutside a crude hut in dawnlight She sat right there in front of hi cardae The voice of a rebeck echoed from somewhere behind him The music echoed and echoed until it entered his head, still echoing It suffused his body and he felt hie, not a child at all And his skin was not his own He knew that sensation! His skin was not his own Warh his body As abruptly as his first vision, he found hiht Stars like a rain of eusts fro, but still he tried to fight it until the father-presence intruded "I will protect you in the trance The others within will not take you"

Wind tu dust and sand over hi the loose-torn ends of now useless fabric But he felt no pain and he saw the cuts heal as rapidly as they appeared Still he rolled with the wind And his skin was not his own

It will happen! he thought

But the thought was distant and cah it were not his own, not really his own; no more than his skin

The vision absorbed hiic memory which separated past and present, future and present, future and past Each separation led into a trinocular focus which he sensed as the multidiht: Tie finder is alocks us into the place weIt came as an amplification of internal consciousness which his self-identity soaked up and through which he felt hi Tied hie-in-motion Their relationships underwent a constant dance His ht which picked out frag to stop the ceaseless ed into his view

That which he and Ghani everything, but now it terrified him Vision reality ached in hie

And his skin was not his own! Past and present tu across the barriers of his terror He could not separate the forth on the Butlerian Jihad, eager to destroy any machine which simulated human awareness That had to be the past - over and done with Yet his senses hurtled through the experience, absorbing thefroate the uidelines This is not so, not on hardware, and we are the ultiras - a vast wooden hall with dark s Light ca flames And his ras which destroy us as humans!"

And it was in Leto&039;s mind that the speaker had been a servant of computers, one who knew them and serviced them But the scene vanished and Ghani: "Gurney knows He toldas aevil, avoid self-awareness&039;

That had to be future - far future But he felt the reality It was as intense as any past from his multitude of lives And he whispered: "Isn&039;t that true, father?"

But the father-presence within spoke warningly: "Don&039;t invite disaster! You&039;re learning stroboscopic awareness now Without it you could overrun yourself, lose your place-ery persisted Intrusions hammered at him Past-present-now There was no true separation He knew he had to floith this thing, but the flowing terrified hinizable place? Yet he felt hi forced to cease every effort of resistance He could not grasp his new universe in s could not be forever ordered and fore and see between the changes to the changing itself Without knohere it began he found hiantic moment bienheureux, able to see the past in the future, present in past, the now in both past and future It was the accumulation of centuries experienced between one heartbeat and the next

Leto&039;s awareness floated free, no objective psyche to compensate for consciousness, no barriers Nahtly in his memory, but it shared awareness withawareness, all of his past, every inner life becareatest within hiht: When you study an object from a distance, only its principle may be seen He had achieved the distance and he could see his own life now: the multi-past and its memories were his burden, his joy, and his necessity But the worer stood guard within hih the distances clearly - past and present And the past presented him with an ultimate ancestor - one as called Harum and without whom the distant future would not be These clear distances provided new principles, new di Whichever life he now chose, he&039;d live it out in an autonomous sphere of le lifetienerations of it Aroused, this mass experience held the power to subdue his selfdom It could make itself felt upon an individual, a nation, a society or an entire civilization That, of course, hy Gurney had been taught to fear him; why Namri&039;s knife waited They could not be allowed to see this poithin him No one could ever see it in its fullness - not even Ghanima

Presently Leto sat up, saw that only Na

In an old voice, Leto said: "There&039;s no single set of limits for all men Universal prescience is an empty myth Only the most powerful local currents of Time may be foretold But in an infinite universe, local can be so gigantic that your mind shrinks fro

"Where&039;s Gurney?" Leto asked

"He left lest he have to watch me slay you"

"Will you slay me, Namri?" It was almost a plea to have the man do it

Namri took his hand from his knife "Since you ask h"

"The s," Leto said He nodded to himself "Yes even civilizations die of it It&039;s as though that were the price de new levels of complexity or consciousness" He looked up at Namri "So they told you to look for indifference in me?" And he saw Nan of unbridled power," Namri said, but it was a lie

"Indifferent power, yes" Leto sat up, sighed deeply "There was no randeur to my father&039;s life, Namri; only a local trap which he built for himself"

O Paul, thou Muad&039;Dib, Mahdi of all s of Muad&039;Dib

"Never!" Ghaniht" She spoke with a barbed stubbornness which thus far had resisted all blandishht, keeping the royal quarters in a state of unrest, sending out for new advisors, for food and drink The entire Te Keep seethed with the frustrations of unreen floater chair in her own quarters, a large roo, however, was iht, and the floor was black tile The furnishings were sparse: a s table, five floater chairs and a narrow cot set into an alcove, Fre

"You are not a free person who can settle every aspect of her own life," Alia said for perhaps the hundredth time The little fool must come to realize this sooner or later! She must approve the betrothal to Farad&039;n She must! Let her kill himent by the Fre to the single note which sustained her "Everyone knows this Fremen would spit at the mention of my name were I to consent to this betrothal"

And that is one of the reasons why you ht She said: "His mother did it He has banished her for it What more do you want of him?"

"His blood," Ghanima said "He&039;s a Corrino"

"He has denounced his own mother," Alia protested "And why should you worry about the Fremen rabble? They&039;ll accept whatever we tell them to accept Ghani, the peace of the Empire demands that -"

"I will not consent," Ghanima said "You cannot announce the betrothal without lanced inquiringly at Alia and the two female advisors who stood dejectedly beside her Irulan saw Alia throw up her ar Ghanima

"You speak to her, Irulan," Alia said

Irulan pulled a floater into place, sat down beside Alia

"You&039;re a Corrino, Irulan," Ghaniot up, crossed to her cot and sat on it cross-legged, glaring back at the women Irulan, she saw, had dressed in a black aba to olden hair It was lobes which illumi