were in the desert. Yes. I-- I couldn't sleep. I could have kept you company. You were sleeping. I didn't want to disturb you. You used to. All the time. We'd sneak out of the sietch together. No one ever knew. Sometimes we wouldn't be back till dawn. I had to talk to Stilgar. Oh. I see. Ghanima, we may have to face some of what's coming apart. That doesn't mean you have to face it alone. The Atreides man named Gurney Halleck... is being sent to the desert to ask questions. Sooner or later, he will encounter someone who can be bought. Then we must make sure he buys the right answers. What shall I do with the blind fool, Father? He can still be useful. Take him into the desert until we need his sermons again. Out of chaos comes civil war. Fremen and Atreides destroying each other. The water of our enemies will feed our revenge. Our suffering will be repaid a thousandfold. Jacarutu. It was a cowardly thing to do. You lost so much here. I know it. Leto knows it. Even Alia must know it, in a way. It helps, doesn't it? The Litany Against Fear. You were thinking it, weren't you? Fear is the mind killer. Ghani, I've decided I want you to know my fear. Fear I've kept hidden too long. I fear for those who are pre-born. Just before we came to Arrakis the first time... I brought a Reverend Mother to meet your father. - He was just a boy. - I remem-- I've been told. The Reverend Mother brought a nerve induction box, tested Paul with it. I was forbidden to interfere. He might have died. But he survived. Of course, you remember this in a way that I cannot. Then that's what your fear is. The memories I've inherited. The possibility of possession. The possibility of abomination. Not you. I'm sure of that now. But you're not sure about Leto. Is he strong enough, Ghani? Leto? Can he survive what's coming? - What is it that's coming? - The Sacr-Nabai. The Golden Path. Leto used those words when he and I were together. He has visions... of a pilgrimage deep into the desert... a journey to a faraway place... where he sees our father... and speaks to him of how things must change. Change? How? He can't tell me. I think he's holding things back from me. But I know this: It's not possession, and it is not abomination. And when it is my brother's turn to be tested... he too will survive... just as our father did. The man has arrived to take you deeper into the desert. He says he will help you find what you're looking for. So now it has been decided We'll go into the desert. So you are the Atreides man, Gurney Halleck. I don't like it. Why would the Corrino family send gifts to Muad'Dib's children? An attempt to curry favor with the future emperor and his sister. You don't believe that any more than I do, Duncan. Nothing is ever as it seems with my sister. Even an innocent gift of clothing can be dangerous. But how? I want these examined thoroughly. Report back to me before they're given to the children. Is that understood? I can feel your suspicion, Duncan. You're wondering if there is something more complex in my motives. The history of what brought a Corrino princess into House Atreides... is not easily forgotten. Plans within plans, is that it, mentat? Do you doubt my allegiance to this family? Allegiances once changed can change again. Our sources in the palace assure me... the robes were delivered. The catalyst is well-hidden. Little, precious Irulan will never find them. Well done. Alia's paranoia is growing stronger day by day. She sees enemies everywhere. And her only solution-- more and more repression. Exactly as we want. The more terror we sow, the more fear and confusion we harvest. The more severely Alia responds... the more Fremen she drives into the south... the sooner they will openly rebel. And then with the twins out of the way... Alia will be more vulnerable than ever. But we mustn
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