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Chapter 09

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It is commonly reported, my dear Georad, that there exists great natural virtue
in the melange experience. Perhaps this is true. There remain within me,
however, profound doubts that every use of melange always brings virtue. It
seems that certain persons have corrupted the use of melange in defiance of God.
In the words of the Ecumenon, they have disfigured the soul. They skim the
surface of melange and believe thereby to attain grace. They deride their
fellows, do great harm to godliness, and they distort the meaning of this
abundant gift maliciously, surely a mutilation beyond the power of man to
restore. To be truly at one with the virtue of the spice, uncorrupted in all
ways, full of goodly honor, a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree.
When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged
by those consequences and not by your explanations. It is thus that we should
judge Muad'Dib.

-The Pedant Heresy

Bashar-Aide Tyekanik and Princess Winsicia Corrino are in a control room discussing their plan to kill the Atreides twins with a pair of Laza Tigers, which they have just watched kill a pair of children dressed as the twins. Tyek doesn't think Prince Farad'n will like the plan. We learn that Javid has assured them that he will take care of Alia. Tyek worries about the Fremen and they plan to introduce Farad'n to Muad'dib's religion. The Princess has the tigers kill their Levenbreach trainer and orders Tyek to have the pilot who brought them killed. Wensicia orders Tyek to send a pair of robes, like the late victems wore, to the Atreides twins as a gift.
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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