![]() "Why, you know, my Lady, I don't even have to wear my stillsuit here?" She cackled. The cistern here holds fifty thousand liters and it's always kept full." She glanced down at her dress. But you've no need to interest yourself in such as they. In a low voice, Mapes said: "I meant no offense, my Lady." Now we see which way the decision tips, she thought. It could only be one thing, Jessica knew, the fabled crysknife of Arrakis, the blade that had never been taken off the planet, and was known only by rumor and wild gossip. Still, she found the thought unsettling that water was a major mark of wealth here. But bringing order of the confusion in the castle was more imperative. Jessica hesitated, wanting to question this Fremen woman, needing data to guide her. "Do you know this, my Lady?" Mapes asked. It was double-edged like a kindjal and the blade was perhaps twenty centimeters long. ![]() The blade seemed to shine and glitter with a light of its own. She took sheath in one hand and handle in the other, withdrew a milk-white blade, held it up. A black handle with deep finger ridges protruded from it. Slowly, Mapes reached into the neck of her dress, brought out a dark sheath. There are worse things than dying, you know - even for an entire people." "There's a remote possibility you could draw my life's blood," Jessica said, "but in so doing you'd bring down more ruin than your wildest fears could imagine. I know many things."Īnd Jessica wondered: Why do I play out this sham? But the Bene Gesserit ways were devious and compelling. "I know that you have borne children, that you have lost loved ones, that you have hidden in fear and that you have done violence and will yet do more violence. Mapes took a backward step, appeared poised to flee. "My husband told me of your title, Shadout," Jessica said. "I know the Bhotani Jib and the Chakobsa, all the hunting languages." "Tongues are the Bene Gesserit's first learning," Jessica said. "Andral t're pera Trada cik buscakri miseces perakri -" "Miseces prejia," she said in the Chakobsa tongue. She read the more obvious signs in Mapes' actions and appearance, the petit betrayals. ![]() "I know the Dark Things and the ways of the Great Mother," Jessica said.
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