Chapter 08
Posted: 12 Feb 2008 21:27
The Fremen see her as the Earth Figure, a demigoddess whose special charge is to
protect the tribes through her powers of violence. She is Reverend Mother to
their Reverend Mothers. To pilgrims who seek her out with demands that she
restore virility or make the barren fruitful, she is a form of antimentat. She
feeds on that proof that the "analytic" has limits. She represents ultimate
tension. She is the virgin-harlot -- witty, vulgar, cruel, as destructive in her
whims as a coriolis storm.
-St. Alia of the Knife as taken from The Irulan Report
Alia looks down on the pilgrams and venders scornfully from her Fane. She wonders who is feeding the Dune Tarot into the Arrakeen market at this particular time and decides to find out. She misses the Dessert, her sense of the past stirred up by the introduction of the ghola. She returns to her private chambers and strips down to nothing but a crystknife in a thong around her neck and takes a bath. She sees a shadow figure of a man in her future but can't identify him. She thinks that maybe if she strains the limits of her prescience she might be able to. She starts feeling horny then jumps from the bath to adjoining training room and activates a fencing prism. She takes the fencing prism to a dangerously high skill level until Paul turns it off with a thrown knife. Paul notices how she is becoming a woman. He starts to tell her why they've come but Stilgar is with him and makes note of how Alia badly needs a man and there will be trouble if it doesn't happen soon. This causes Alia to loose her Bene Gesserit self-control, which astounds and angers her. Paul tells him he will discuss it later with Alia privately. Paul tells Alia that he suspects that the Guild is about to try to capture a worm and take it from Arrakis, Alia notes that they must have Fremen accomplices. Paul is bothered by the fact that he has not been able to 'see' the world they intent to attempt to recreate the spice cycle on and Alia says it is because they've hid it with the powers of a Navigator, which shocks Stilgar with their admission of weakness. They all know that they will be unsuccessful even if they do capture a worm, without sand plankton and sandtrout. Stilgar asks if they cannot see the Guild at its work, then Paul and Alia explain to Stilgar the limits of their prescience.
protect the tribes through her powers of violence. She is Reverend Mother to
their Reverend Mothers. To pilgrims who seek her out with demands that she
restore virility or make the barren fruitful, she is a form of antimentat. She
feeds on that proof that the "analytic" has limits. She represents ultimate
tension. She is the virgin-harlot -- witty, vulgar, cruel, as destructive in her
whims as a coriolis storm.
-St. Alia of the Knife as taken from The Irulan Report
Alia looks down on the pilgrams and venders scornfully from her Fane. She wonders who is feeding the Dune Tarot into the Arrakeen market at this particular time and decides to find out. She misses the Dessert, her sense of the past stirred up by the introduction of the ghola. She returns to her private chambers and strips down to nothing but a crystknife in a thong around her neck and takes a bath. She sees a shadow figure of a man in her future but can't identify him. She thinks that maybe if she strains the limits of her prescience she might be able to. She starts feeling horny then jumps from the bath to adjoining training room and activates a fencing prism. She takes the fencing prism to a dangerously high skill level until Paul turns it off with a thrown knife. Paul notices how she is becoming a woman. He starts to tell her why they've come but Stilgar is with him and makes note of how Alia badly needs a man and there will be trouble if it doesn't happen soon. This causes Alia to loose her Bene Gesserit self-control, which astounds and angers her. Paul tells him he will discuss it later with Alia privately. Paul tells Alia that he suspects that the Guild is about to try to capture a worm and take it from Arrakis, Alia notes that they must have Fremen accomplices. Paul is bothered by the fact that he has not been able to 'see' the world they intent to attempt to recreate the spice cycle on and Alia says it is because they've hid it with the powers of a Navigator, which shocks Stilgar with their admission of weakness. They all know that they will be unsuccessful even if they do capture a worm, without sand plankton and sandtrout. Stilgar asks if they cannot see the Guild at its work, then Paul and Alia explain to Stilgar the limits of their prescience.