Chapter 3 third chapter

Alia felt her heart pounding as she left the twins.For a few seconds, she almost impulsively decided to stay with them and ask for their help.What a foolish display of cowardice!Thinking of that moment, Alia was lost in thought.Will the twins dare to try and see the future?The road that had ruined their father must have lured them—to see the future under the influence of spice maze, a lure that swayed like mist on the wind. Why can't I see the future?Alia thought, I try so hard, why does it keep avoiding me? Make sure the twins try it, she told herself, entice them to do it.They still have the curiosity of a child, and this curiosity is bound up with memories spanning millennia.

Same as me, Alia thought. Her guards opened the vapor seals of the Cave VIP passage and stood on either side of the entrance, and she then walked up to the landing pad where the orptopter was parked.The wind blowing from the depths of the desert carried sand and dust across the sky, but the sky was still bright anyway.Alia came down from the spherical light in the cave to the daylight, and the change of environment made her throw away her original thoughts. Why did Mrs. Jessica choose to come back at this time?Could it be that the story of the female regent also reached Caladan? "We have to hurry up, ma'am." A guard raised his voice amidst the wind.

Alia was helped into the orthopter and fastened her seat belt.But her thoughts still didn't stop. Why come now? The wings of the oropter flapped up and down a few times, and the whole oropter rose into the air.She really felt the glitz and power that status brought—but how fragile it was.How vulnerable! Why now?When your plan has not been completed? The dust floating in the air gradually faded away.She could see the sun shining on the planet's land.The landforms are changing dramatically, and the previously dry land is covered with large areas of green plants. If I can't foresee the future, I will fail.Oh, what feats I would have done with Paul's foresight!I beg for such precognition.But not to deal with your own pain.

The painful longing made her tremble all over, and she only wished that she didn't have such a desire, and accepted the shock of falling to the ground like everyone else, and lived this life in a ignorant and peaceful way.but not!Born an Atreides, a victim whose mother's spice addiction had activated a consciousness that had been dormant for centuries in the depths of her memory. Why is my mother coming back today? Gurney Halleck should be with her—the incomparably loyal servant; the ugly hired killer; loyal and candid; a musician who can kill with a plectrum and with the ease of a Barris nine The harp was played to add to the fun.Some say he has become her mother's lover.That has yet to be confirmed, and it may turn out to be the most valuable piece of intelligence.

The idea of ​​becoming an ordinary person left her unconsciously. Leto had to be lured into drinking the spice maze, entering a spice-inspired intoxication. She remembered asking Leto what he would do with Gurney Halleck.Leto sensed the depth of the question at the time, saying that Halleck was loyal to "a mistake," before adding: "He adored my ... father." She noticed the moment of hesitation when Leto almost blurted out "I" instead of "my father."Yeah, sometimes it's hard to separate genetic memory from the living person's own words and actions.Memories of Gurney Halleck are not so easy to separate.

There was a cold smile on the corner of Alia's mouth. Gurney and Mrs. Jessica have been at Caladan since Paul's death.Now, his return will complicate an already complicated situation.Upon his return to Arrakis, he would add his own element to existing relationships.He once played for Paul's father, and the order of the line was Leto I to Paul to Leto II.There is also an offshoot, the breeding program of the Bee Geist Sisterhood: Jessica to Aria to Ganima.The chaos will be exacerbated by the arrival of Gurney, a man who could be of use. How would he react if he found out that we were of the Harkonnen blood he hated most?

The smile on Alia's mouth turned into a thoughtful expression.After all, the twins were still children.They are like children with countless pairs of parents. Their memories belong to others as well as themselves.They would stand on the landing pad in Teb's Cavern, watching the trajectory of their grandmother's ship as it descended in the Arakon Basin.For Jessica's grandkids, would the jet trail left by the craft in the sky make her arrival more concrete? Mother would ask me how I trained them, Alia thought, and whether I was wise in using punishment.And I would tell her that they were training themselves—just like I did.I will quote what her grandson said: "One of the duties of rulers is to punish as necessary...but only if the victim has committed a mistake."

It occurred to Alia that if she could get Mrs. Jessica to focus primarily on the twins, other things might escape her sharp eye. It can be done.Leto is a lot like Paul.It's only natural that he can become Paul whenever he wants.Even Ghanima has this chilling ability. Like I can be my mother, or anyone else who shares their life memories with me. She turned her thoughts away, watching the shape of the mountain of shield wall skimming the outside of the fuselage.Then, she thought again: how would she feel after leaving the water-rich, warm and safe Karadan and returning to the desert planet Arrakis?Here her duke was murdered and her son a martyr.

Why is Mrs. Jessica back at this hour? Alia couldn't find an answer—at least not a definite one.She can share the self-awareness of countless people in her body, but individual experiences are different, and everyone's motivation will become different.Only the individual actions taken by each individual reveal that individual's decision.This is especially important for Atreides, who has memories before birth.Their birth process is different from ordinary people: leaving the mother's body is just a complete physical separation. Before that, the mother's body has left a rich memory bank for the little life.

Alia didn't think it was odd that she loved and hated her mother at the same time.It's an inevitability, a necessary balance, and there's no need to feel guilty or condemned for it.There is neither love nor hate in this question.Should the Bee Geist Sisterhood be condemned?Because they designed Lady Jessica's path?When someone's memory spans an entire millennium, it can be difficult to separate guilt from condemnation of others.The Sisterhood is simply trying to optimize a Kwizaki Hadenatch as a male counterpart to the mature Madonna...and... as a being of extraordinary sentience and consciousness, Kwizaki Hadnack Can appear in multiple time and space at the same time.Lady Jessica was a mere pawn in this breeding program, yet she had low taste to fall in love with her allotted reproductive partner, and to fulfill the wishes of her beloved Duke, she did not follow the sorority's order. Arrangements were made to have a girl, but instead a boy was born.

Let me be born after her spice addiction!Now, they don't want me anymore!Now, they are afraid of me!I also found various reasons... They managed to make Paul, their Kwizaki Hadenatch, just a generation earlier.It was a small miscalculation in their long-term plan.Now they are faced with a new problem: the deformed evil spirit, which carries the precious genes they have been looking for for several generations. Aria felt a shadow falling before her eyes, and when she looked up, she saw that her escort fleet had been lined up in the highest alert formation before landing.She shook her head, lamenting her wild thoughts.What good does it do to mentally visit historical figures and sort out their mistakes?It's a new era after all. Duncan Idaho had focused his Mentat consciousness on the question of why Jessica had returned at this hour, evaluating it with his gift - the ancient computer-like brain.He said she came back to help the sisterhood retrieve the twins, who also carried those precious genes.He may well be right.This purpose was enough to bring Lady Jessica out of her voluntary seclusion in Caladan.If the Sisterhood ordered her... what else could bring her back to this place full of painful memories for her? "We'll find out," murmured Alia. She felt the orthopter touch down on the roof of her castle, and the kickback and screech of brakes filled her with forebodings of the future.