Chapter 18
Posted: 12 Feb 2008 17:42
Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
-Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess
Irulan
Leto is standing in the foyer reading a strange message he's just received from a Fremen messenger, "A column of smoke by day, a pillar of fire by night". He puts it in his pocket to give to Hawat later. First he wants to go wake up Jessica to tell her he never suspected her. On the way he finds the smuggler, Tuek, dead in the passage. He thinks to turn on his shield but it will limit his movement and hearing and there's also the threat of the stolen lasgun shipment. Further along he finds Mapes, mortally wounded but still alive. She summoned Tuek so the Duke could escape. He's hit with a tranquilizer dart and looks up to see Yueh leaving the shield generator room. He's sabotaged the house shield generators and left them wide open to attack. Yueh confesses that it's his desire to kill the Baron Harkonnen whom has over-ridden his imperial conditioning. Yueh puts a false tooth in the Duke's mouth with poison inside, he wants him to use it to kill the Baron, in return he will save Paul and Jessica by making it appear that they've been killed and sending them to the Fremen. Yueh takes the Duke's signet ring to give to Paul and reminds him once more of the tooth.
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
-Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess
Irulan
Leto is standing in the foyer reading a strange message he's just received from a Fremen messenger, "A column of smoke by day, a pillar of fire by night". He puts it in his pocket to give to Hawat later. First he wants to go wake up Jessica to tell her he never suspected her. On the way he finds the smuggler, Tuek, dead in the passage. He thinks to turn on his shield but it will limit his movement and hearing and there's also the threat of the stolen lasgun shipment. Further along he finds Mapes, mortally wounded but still alive. She summoned Tuek so the Duke could escape. He's hit with a tranquilizer dart and looks up to see Yueh leaving the shield generator room. He's sabotaged the house shield generators and left them wide open to attack. Yueh confesses that it's his desire to kill the Baron Harkonnen whom has over-ridden his imperial conditioning. Yueh puts a false tooth in the Duke's mouth with poison inside, he wants him to use it to kill the Baron, in return he will save Paul and Jessica by making it appear that they've been killed and sending them to the Fremen. Yueh takes the Duke's signet ring to give to Paul and reminds him once more of the tooth.