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Chapter 10

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Either we abandon the long-honored Theory of Relativity, or we cease to believe
that we can engage in continued accurate prediction of the future. Indeed,
knowing the future raises a host of questions which cannot be answered under
conventional assumptions unless one first projects an Observer outside of Time
and, second, nullifies all movement. If you accept the Theory of Relativity, it
can be shown that Time and the Observer must stand still in relationship to each
or inaccuracies will intervene. This would seem to say that it is impossible to
engage in accurate prediction of the future. How, then, do we explain the
continued seeking after this visionary goal by respected scientists? How, then,
do we explain Muad'Dib?

-Lectures on Prescience by Harq al-Ada

Jessica is interviewing Ghanima at Sietch Tabr. Leto has been excluded because Jessica feels he's hiding something terrible. Ghani can read Jessica so well that she drops her Bene Gesserit masks. They can read each other so well that they have a brief conversation without words where Jessica expresses her fear for her and Ghani finally feels Jessica's love for her. Jessica tells Ghani that she cannot use the Gom Jabbar test on the twins because they already know about it through their pre-born ancestral memories of Paul's experience. Jessica trusts her instincts that Ghani is human but has doubts about Leto. Ghani reasures her that they have not yet become abomination like Alia, primarily by avoiding the spice trance. Jessica asks about the preacher, the twins think it could be Paul but have not seen him yet, Leto wants to find out for sure. Ghani says Leto has a curious attraction to Alia and wants to study her, she cautions him against it but when she does he falls asleep and mutters "Jacurutu" in his sleep. She suspects Alia is trying to get Leto to seek out the place of legends. Jessica has already sent Gurney to Jacurutu. Jessica thinks to herself that the twins need to be seperated and Leto should be trained in the way the BG has ordered.
They were destroyed because they lied pretentiously. Have no fear that my wrath
will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.

~Leto II, God Emperor
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