Chapter 41
Posted: 24 Mar 2008 18:50
"Control the coinage and the courts -- let the rabble have the rest." Thus the
Padishah Emperor advises you. And he tells you: "If you want profits, you must
rule." There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble and
who are the ruled?"
-Muad'Dib's Secret Message to the Landsraad from "Arrakis Awakening" by the
Princess Irulan
Jessica is in her room in a Southern Sietch, worrying about Paul’s sandrider test. Harah brings Alia to her, she hid behind a curtain to watch the birth of a child. She came out from hiding, touched the child and stopped it from crying. This upset the Fremen because a Fremen baby must get all it’s crying done at birth. What really upsets them though is that Alia says the child looks like one born on Bela Tegeuse before the parting. Harah tells Jessica it’s not just the things she knows but the Bene Gesserit exercises too. The other children refuse to play with her and say she’s a demon. Also, it’s the way Alia could talk from birth and knew the water discipline. Alia and Jessica explain to Harah how Alia was awakened to consciousness in Jessica’s womb during the Ceremony of the Seed, how the memories of Jessica and all the Reverend Mothers before them were forced on her, so she can explain it to others.
They are interrupted by the ceremony remembering the slave raids on Poritrin, Bela Tegeuse, Rossak and Harmonthep. As soon as it ends, a Fremen woman comes in and warns Jessica that the young men know of Paul’s sandrider test and plan to go raiding and meet up with him in the North to force Paul to call out Stilgar and assume leadership of the Tribes. Jessica sends Alia and Harah to try to diffuse the situation.
Padishah Emperor advises you. And he tells you: "If you want profits, you must
rule." There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble and
who are the ruled?"
-Muad'Dib's Secret Message to the Landsraad from "Arrakis Awakening" by the
Princess Irulan
Jessica is in her room in a Southern Sietch, worrying about Paul’s sandrider test. Harah brings Alia to her, she hid behind a curtain to watch the birth of a child. She came out from hiding, touched the child and stopped it from crying. This upset the Fremen because a Fremen baby must get all it’s crying done at birth. What really upsets them though is that Alia says the child looks like one born on Bela Tegeuse before the parting. Harah tells Jessica it’s not just the things she knows but the Bene Gesserit exercises too. The other children refuse to play with her and say she’s a demon. Also, it’s the way Alia could talk from birth and knew the water discipline. Alia and Jessica explain to Harah how Alia was awakened to consciousness in Jessica’s womb during the Ceremony of the Seed, how the memories of Jessica and all the Reverend Mothers before them were forced on her, so she can explain it to others.
They are interrupted by the ceremony remembering the slave raids on Poritrin, Bela Tegeuse, Rossak and Harmonthep. As soon as it ends, a Fremen woman comes in and warns Jessica that the young men know of Paul’s sandrider test and plan to go raiding and meet up with him in the North to force Paul to call out Stilgar and assume leadership of the Tribes. Jessica sends Alia and Harah to try to diffuse the situation.