qualities in the desert. Better sometimes to miss an opportunity than invite disaster. Your only value at the moment is the water in your flesh. You know the law, Stil. Yes. The law. Tell them to stop hunting my son. Tell them. Leave off! Leave the boy alone! Do you hear me? Is this the way you welcome friends of Liet? Is it? As leader of this tribe... ...l'm offering the Weirding woman and her son sanctuary. No Fremen will lay a hand on you while you have my protection. For how long? Don't be a fool, woman. You're fugitives from the Harkonnen. Don't be fugitives from us as well. Merciful God! I've heard of the Weirding ways. Imagine what a man could do with it. No doubt we have much to teach each other. You can come down, boy! Your mother has shown her worth. He won't move unless I say so. Discipline. Good. He's here! He is unharmed. We are coming down. Leave me alone. Made a lot of noise climbing. He has much to learn. -Stilgar. -Can you travel, Jamis? He surprised me, that's all. -Of course I can travel. -Good. We have now two with us who are not trained. In squad lines with flankers. We have to make Cave of Ridges before full sun. Chani, you will be responsible for him. My name is Paul. Only until we give you a new one. Follow me. Do exactly as I do. Across there is home... ...Sietch Tabr. We'll be there tomorrow. Tomorrow? That must be hundreds of kilometres from here. It will be a hard ride. Sun will be up soon. Patrols sometimes come this far. We can't let them see us. When you give us your stillsuits, we will recover your water for you. Here is some food. Spice. We don't have delicacies from the cities like you are used to. It's fine. She's the one, isn't she? The one you've seen in your dreams? I can tell by the way you stare at her. I don't know what it means. Be careful, Paul. We are new to these people as they are to us. Everything we say and do must be careful. Predicting the future, then plotting to make it so. These are superstitious people. If we are to survive, it will be best to accommodate their legends. I'm the steward of the sand. I am a desert creature. A desert creature. Not finished yet! Still have work to do! The pre-spice mass. I am a desert crea-- Spice blow. Somewhere to the east. A large field from the looks of it. We have to send gatherers before Harkonnen pirates come for it. You harvest the spice? For bribes to the Spacing Guild. It's Liet's wish. We pay them to keep our skies free of their satellites... ...so that no one can know what we are doing here. You will learn. Amtal! I invoke amtal. Jamis. What is this? His way of dealing with what happened the other night. That was an accident. He bested me because there was witch-force at Tuono basin. Amtal! It's my right! We must not interfere. Jamis has called him out. You're starting something you're going to regret. -Stilgar. -You must step back. Ifyou know what's good foryou, you'll find an honourable way... ...to leave this thing alone. Silence! I invoke silence. She's trying to put a spell on me. If you try that again, we know it's your witchcraft. I won't be able to protect you or the boy anymore. Come. You can't stop this. A crysknife, our ritual weapon. Use it well. May your blade chip and shatter. I'm going to bathe this knife with your blood. First, you'll have to find my blood. -Do you yield? -Yield? There is no yielding. It's to the death, boy! -He's never had to kill. -What? Then he'd better learn. Finish. Don't toy with him. He's bested Jamis. This didn't have to happen. It is our way. Your way. Killing each other. No man recognises leadership without the challenge of combat. There is a legend among us... ...that a voice from the out-world will come. The Mahdi. He will hold the key to our future. It is said that a Bene Gesserit will be his mother. A Sayyadina. Friend of God. There are ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Садко на английском - текст Рей на английском - текст ДМБ-002 на английском - текст Токийская история на английском - текст Хорошие парни носят чёрное на английском |