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.But he also warned them:"One of the most dangerous things in the universe is an ignorant people withreal grievances.That is nowhere near as dangerous, however, as an informed andintelligent society with grievances.The damage that vengeful intelligence canwreak, you cannot even imagine.The Tyrant would seem a benevolent fatherfigure by comparison with what you were about to create!"It was all true, of course, but in a Bene Gesserit context, and it helped littlewith what he was commanded to do to the Duncan Idaho ghola -- creating mentaland physical agony in an almost helpless victim.Easiest to recall was the look in Duncan's eyes.They did not change focus, butglared directly up into Teg's face, even at the instant of the final screamingshout:"Damn you, Leto! What are you doing?"He called me Leto.Teg limped backward two steps.His left leg tingled and ached where Duncan hadstruck it.Teg realized that he was panting and at the end of his reserves.Hewas much too old for such exertions and the things he had just done made himfeel dirty.The reawakening procedure was thoroughly fixed in his awareness,though.He knew that gholas once had been awakened by conditioning them unconsciously to attempt murder on someone they loved.The ghola psyche,shattered and forced to reassemble, was always psychologically scarred.Thisnew technique left the scars in the one who managed the process.Slowly, moving against the outcry of muscles and nerves that had been stunned byagony, Duncan slid backward off the table and stood leaning against his chair,trembling and glaring at Teg.Teg's instructions said: "You must stand very quietly.Do not move.Let himlook at you as he will."Teg stood unmoving as he had been instructed.Memory of the Cerbol Revolt lefthis mind: He knew what he had done then and now.In a way, the two times weresimilar.He had told the rebels no ultimate truths (if such existed); onlyenough to lure them back into the fold.Pain and its predictable consequences."This is for your own good."Was it really good, what they did to this Duncan Idaho ghola?Teg wondered what was occurring in Duncan's consciousness.Teg had been told asmuch as was known about these moments, but he could see that the words wereinadequate.Duncan's eyes and face gave abundant evidence of internal turmoil -- a hideous twisting of mouth and cheeks, the gaze darting this way and that.Slowly, exquisite in its slowness, Duncan's face relaxed.His body continued totremble.He felt the throbbing of his body as a distant thing, aches anddarting pains that had happened to someone else.He was here, though, in thisimmediate moment -- whatever and wherever this was.His memories would notmesh.He felt suddenly out of place in flesh too young, not fitted to his pre-ghola existence.The darting and twisting of awareness was all internal now.Teg's instructors had said: "He will have ghola-imposed filters on his pre-ghola memories.Some of the original memories will come flooding back.Otherrecollections will return more slowly.There will be no meshing, though, untilhe recalls that original moment of death." Bellonda had then given Teg theknown details of that fatal moment."Sardaukar," Duncan whispered.He looked around him at the Harkonnen symbolsthat permeated the no-globe."The Emperor's crack troops wearing Harkonnenuniforms!" A wolfish grin twisted his mouth."How they must have hated that!"Teg remained silently watchful."They killed me," Duncan said.It was a flatly unemotional statement, all themore chilling for its positive delivery.A violent shudder passed through himand the trembling subsided."At least a dozen of them in that little room." Helooked directly at Teg."One of them got through at me like a meat cleaverright down on my head." He hesitated, his throat working convulsively.Hisgaze remained on Teg."Did I buy Paul enough time to escape?""Answer all of his questions truthfully.""He escaped."Now, they came to a testing moment.Where had the Tleilaxu acquired the Idahocells? The Sisterhood's tests said they were original, but suspicions remained [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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