Chapter 54
Posted: 24 Jul 2008 10:34
Thou didst divide the sand by thy strength; Thou breakest the heads of the
dragons in the desert. Yea, I behold thee as a beast coming up from the dunes;
thou hast the two horns of the lamb, but thou speakest as the dragon.
-Revised Orange Catholic Bible Arran 11:4
Leto can sense the threads of the future come together as a mighty rope and he feels as if the planet and the universe are his to do his bidding. He had summoned a worm by stamping his foot, using only his sandtrout membraned hands as maker hooks and rode north all night. The sandtrout have become part of him and he part of them, he knew his farther saw this but rejected it as too terrible. Prescience had killed Muad’dib, he passed into alam al-mythal while still alive rather than take this path, now there is only The Preacher. He waits to intercept him, his young guide and their worm on their way to Shuloch. The guide spots Leto and aims his worm at him but the worm comes to a halt a few meters from Leto. Leto orders Paul to spend the night there and Paul tells his guide to take the worm away and release it. Paul joins Leto atop his dune. Here the visions part. Paul begs him not to take this path but Leto tells him it is too late, his skin is not his own. The guide Tariq, senses the vision battle about to take place, Paul tells Leto he cannot control the future. One of them will be forced to act and in doing so choose a vision. Leto feels that Paul is right, trying to control the future only builds weapons with which the universe will destroy you. Leto has two advantages in this battle though, he has set out on a path of no return and accepted the terrible consequences. Paul still hoped for a way out and had made no final commitment. Tariq plants a pseudo-shield in the dune and starts backing away but Leto senses the ozone. Paul begs him not to but Leto snaps tariq’s neck and throws the pseudo-shield far to the South where they can hear a worm go into a frenzy then subside.
Paul can no loger see how Leto might control the future and senses the Golden Path. Leto tells Paul that he is here to give purpose to evolution and their lives. Pauls says he will take the vision away from Leto if he can. Leto says he will give humanity thousands of years of dormancy and stagnation, a lesson they will never forget. Leto gives him a choice between going back with him or not at all, Paul chooses not to return. Paul knows that he cannot win this battle of vision but hopes to destroy Leto’s one vision. Paul asks if Kralizec is necessary, Leto says it’s that or humanity will be extinguished. Paul admits that he did not see that possibility. Leto tells him that he thinks the Sisterhood suspects it, that is the only explaination for Jessica’s actions. Paul thinks that Muad’dib must be destroyed, only The Preacher can go on now.
dragons in the desert. Yea, I behold thee as a beast coming up from the dunes;
thou hast the two horns of the lamb, but thou speakest as the dragon.
-Revised Orange Catholic Bible Arran 11:4
Leto can sense the threads of the future come together as a mighty rope and he feels as if the planet and the universe are his to do his bidding. He had summoned a worm by stamping his foot, using only his sandtrout membraned hands as maker hooks and rode north all night. The sandtrout have become part of him and he part of them, he knew his farther saw this but rejected it as too terrible. Prescience had killed Muad’dib, he passed into alam al-mythal while still alive rather than take this path, now there is only The Preacher. He waits to intercept him, his young guide and their worm on their way to Shuloch. The guide spots Leto and aims his worm at him but the worm comes to a halt a few meters from Leto. Leto orders Paul to spend the night there and Paul tells his guide to take the worm away and release it. Paul joins Leto atop his dune. Here the visions part. Paul begs him not to take this path but Leto tells him it is too late, his skin is not his own. The guide Tariq, senses the vision battle about to take place, Paul tells Leto he cannot control the future. One of them will be forced to act and in doing so choose a vision. Leto feels that Paul is right, trying to control the future only builds weapons with which the universe will destroy you. Leto has two advantages in this battle though, he has set out on a path of no return and accepted the terrible consequences. Paul still hoped for a way out and had made no final commitment. Tariq plants a pseudo-shield in the dune and starts backing away but Leto senses the ozone. Paul begs him not to but Leto snaps tariq’s neck and throws the pseudo-shield far to the South where they can hear a worm go into a frenzy then subside.
Paul can no loger see how Leto might control the future and senses the Golden Path. Leto tells Paul that he is here to give purpose to evolution and their lives. Pauls says he will take the vision away from Leto if he can. Leto says he will give humanity thousands of years of dormancy and stagnation, a lesson they will never forget. Leto gives him a choice between going back with him or not at all, Paul chooses not to return. Paul knows that he cannot win this battle of vision but hopes to destroy Leto’s one vision. Paul asks if Kralizec is necessary, Leto says it’s that or humanity will be extinguished. Paul admits that he did not see that possibility. Leto tells him that he thinks the Sisterhood suspects it, that is the only explaination for Jessica’s actions. Paul thinks that Muad’dib must be destroyed, only The Preacher can go on now.