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"And Leto will control the spice," Jessica reminded them
"He&039;ll control it absolutely," Ghani with the neareness which Jessica had taught him, heard a set piece, a prepared perforrandmother
"Peace will endure and endure and endure," Ghanima said "Memory of ill all but vanish Leto will lead huarden for at least four thousand years"
Tyekanik glanced questioningly at Farad&039;n, cleared his throat
"Yes, Tyek?" Farad&039;n said
"I&039;d speak privately with you, My Prince"
Farad&039;n s the question in Tyekanik&039;sthat at least two others present also recognized this question "I&039;ll not sell the Sardaukar," Farad&039;n said
"No need," Ghanima said
"Do you listen to this child?" Tyekanik deed The old Naib there understood the proble, but nobody else knew a darihed It was easy to forget the strangeness of this child as not a child He could iine a lifetime married to her, the hidden reservations on every intiinning to recognize its inevitability Absolute control of dwindling spice supplies! Nothing would move in the universe without the spice
"Later, Tyek," Farad&039;n said
"But -"
"Later, I said!" For the first time, he used Voice on Tyekanik, saw the ht smile touched Jessica&039;s mouth
"He talks of peace and death in the sae!"
Ghanih the cult of death into the free air of exuberant life! He speaks of death because that&039;s necessary, Stil It&039;s a tension by which the living know they&039;re alive When his Empire falls Oh, yes, it&039;ll fall You think this is Kralizec now, but Kralizec is yet to come And when it comes, humans will have renewed their memory of what it&039;s like to be alive The le huh the crucible once more, Stil And we&039;ll come out of it We always arise fro her words, understood nohat she&039;dHe&039;ll not be hurowled
"Oh, the worms will come back," Ghanima assured him "All will be dead within two hundred years, but they&039;ll coar broke off
Farad&039;n felt his mind awash in revelation He knehat Ghanima would say before she spoke
"The Guild will barely h the lean years, and only then because of its stockpiles and ours," Ghanima said "But there&039;ll be abundance after Kralizec The woroes into the sand"
As with so ions, Muad&039;Dib&039;s Golden Elixir of Life degenerated into external wizardry Its ical processes, and those processes, of course, ran wild What they needed was a living god, and they didn&039;t have one, a situation which Muad&039;Dib&039;s son has corrected -Saying attributed to Lu Tung-pin, (Lu, The Guest of the Cavern)
Leto sat on the Lion Throne to accept the hoe of the tribes Ghanima stood beside him, one step down The ceremony in the Great Hall went on for hours Tribe after Freates and their Naibs Each group bore gifts fitting for a god of terrifying powers, a god of vengeance who promised them peace
He&039;d cowed the for the assees had seen hi unscathed to de them to study him closely He&039;d ordered them to strike him with knives, and the impenetrable skin had sealed his face while they struck at hihtest hed at the the field at Arrakeen, where he&039;d brazenly toppled a Guild frigate by lifting one of its landing fins
The arifa had reported all of this with a fearful awe, and now the tribal delegates had come to seal their submission
The vaulted space of the Great Hall with its acoustical da syste ofon dust and the flint odors brought in from the open
Jessica, who&039;d refused to attend, watched froht by Farad&039;n and the realization that both she and Farad&039;n had been outmaneuvered Of course Leto and Ghanima had anticipated the Sisterhood! The twins could consult within the in the Empire
She was particularly bitter at the way the Sisterhood&039;s y had trapped Alia Fear built on fear! The habits of generations had imprinted the fate of Abomination upon her Alia had known no hope Of course she&039;d succumbed Her fate made the accomplishment of Leto and Ghanima even more difficult to face Not one way out of the trap, but two Ghanima&039;s victory over the inner lives and her insistence that Alia deserved only pity were the bitterest things of all Hypnotic suppression under stress linked to the wooing of a benign ancestor had saved Ghani had been attempted until it was too late Alia&039;s water had been poured upon the sand
Jessica sighed, shifted her attention to Leto on the throne A giant canopic jar containing the water of Muad&039;Dib occupied a place of honor at his right elbow He&039;d boasted to Jessica that his father-within laughed at this gesture even while ad had fir as she lived, she knew she could never accept Paul speaking through Leto&039;s mouth She rejoiced that House Atreides had survived, but the things-that-
Farad&039;n sat cross-legged beside the jar of Muad&039;Dib&039;s water It was the position of the Royal Scribe, an honor newly conferred and newly accepted
Farad&039;n felt that he was adjusting nicely to these new realities although Tyekanik still raged and proar had formed a partnership of distrust which seee cereone from awe to boredom to awe They were an endless strea men Their loyalty renewed to the Atreides on the throne could not be questioned They stood in submissive terror before him, completely daunted by what the arifa had reported
At last it drew to a close The final Naib stood before Leto - Stilgar in the "rearguard position of honor" Instead of panniers heavy with spice, fire jewels, or any of the other costly gifts which lay in ar bore a headband of braided spice-fiber The Atreides Hawk had been worked in gold and green into its design
Ghaniar placed the headband on the second step below the throne, bowed low "I give you the headband worn by your sister when I took her into the desert to protect her," he said
Leto suppressed a sar," Leto said "Is there soestured at the piles of costly gifts
"No, My Lord"
"I accept your gift then," Leto said He rocked forward, brought up the hem of Ghaniive you this bit of Ghanima&039;s robe, the robe she hen she was stolen froar accepted the cloth in a tre hand "Do you ar, never would I ift without price I command you to carry it always next to your heart as a reminder that all humans are prone to error and all leaders are huar "What a Naib you would have et that!"
"As you say, My Lord" Stilgar sed, reht: Once I thought of slaying hiraceful opaque gold capped with green "That is water of my tribe"
"And mine," Leto said "I command you to read the inscription upon its side Read it aloud that all lance at Ghanima, but she returned it with a lift of her chin, a cold response which sent a chill through hi him to answer for his i
Slowly Stilgar mounted the steps, bent to look at the jar Presently he read aloud: "This water is the ultih motionless, this water is the ar whispered He felt awed by the words, touched within himself in a place he could not understand
"The body of Muad&039;Dib is a dry shell like that abandoned by an insect," Leto said "Hethe outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe Hethe inner world, and this delivered his descendants to the demons The Golden Elixir will vanish frooes on, and his water s always left hi and the end are one," Leto said "You live in air but do not see it A phase has closed Out of that closing grows the beginning of its opposite Thus, ill have Kralizec Everything returns later in changed forhts in your head; your descendants will feel thoughts in their bellies Return to Sietch Tabr, Stilgar Gurney Halleck will join you there as my advisor in your Council"
"Don&039;t you trust ar&039;s voice was low
"Coin recruiting the new force we&039;ll need soon I accept your pledge of fealty, Stilgar You are disar bowed low, backed off the steps, turned and left the hall The other Naibs fell into step behind hi to the Fremen principle that "the last shall be first" But some of their queries could be heard on the throne as they departed
"What were you talking about up there, Stil? What does that mean, those words on Muad&039;Dib&039;s water?"
Leto spoke to Farad&039;n "Did you get all of that, Scribe?"
"Yes, My Lord"
"My grandmother tells me she trained you well in the ood I don&039;t want you scribbling beside me"
"As you command, My Lord"
"Come and stand before me," Leto said
Farad&039;n obeyed,When you accepted the fact that Leto no longer was huht, the course of his Golden Path beca
Leto looked up at Farad&039;n The guards stood well back out of earshot Only the counselors of the Inner Presence remained on the floor of the Great Hall, and they stood in subservient groups well beyond the first step Ghanima had moved closer to rest an arreed to give me your Sardaukar," Leto said "But you will"
"I owe you much, but not that," Farad&039;n said
"You think they&039;d not mate ith ar and Tyekanik"
"Yet you refuse?"