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I get lost in my memories sometimes. Not because I've gone on memory safari but because the universe constantly takes every opportunity to present the past disguised as something new. The Universe repeats it's lessons over and over again. It's up to us to learn these lessons well and never forget them.
Leto II
Parameters of Eternity
Data Retrieval Network
IX
"Did you find it?" Leto asked.
"Yes, Lord. It was exactly where you said it would it be." Moneo said.
They walked along the eastern citadel wall. It was near dark. The orange Arrakis sun was setting behind a sheaf of blood red clouds. There was enough water vapor on Dune to change the color of the sky. Leto could smell free water in the air. The worm within screamed to encapsulate it. Leto struggled to keep himself under rigid control. His Bene Gesserit training helped.
"Liet-Kynes would have been proud of me." Leto thought to himself. "The ecological transformation of Arrakis is complete." Leto thought of the ecologist as if he was just here yesterday. He still remembered the first time he met Leit. He was going with his father to inspect the spice production. Leit was kind enough to check the integrity of his stillsuit that recycled the body's moisture. The stillsuit made the human habitation of Arrakis possible. Without a stillsuit an exposed Human would die within a day from the dehydration. And then Leto remembered. He had never met Leit-Kynes. It was his father, Paul Atreides, who met Leit that day. Leto was not even born when that occurred.
"It was a secret planet, my lord" Moneo said, "Or more accurately, a secret base the size of a moon hidden in the atmosphere of a gas giant. We found it using high resolution imaging radar. We lost four Guild ships trying to get a better view." Moneo stopped and stared at Leto for a moment. "My lord, it was ugly, horrifying. It took all of my training to keep from running away from it. Every cell in my body told me that this thing, this moon was unnatural. That world should not exist!
"You don't know how close to the truth you are." Leto thought.
They stopped by a buttress to admire the view.
"What was that thing?" Moneo said, sounding like a frightened child asking his father about a body he found.
"On Earth it was called "The Deeper Well". It is a graveyard for monsters. The Universe is more complex and stranger than anyone can understand. There are forces in the universe I will not permit to Humans.
Leto looked into the night sky. He observed stars and nebula both ancient and distant.
"There are things in the dark for which Man is not ready." Leto said
"Have the girls brought to me." Leto said
The change in subject was not unexpected. Moneo had learned to anticipate Leto's moods. Decades ago the Fish Speakers began to preserve a small contingent of their daughters to be trained as special-forces, to be trained in the old para-bindu ways of the Bene Gesserit. The youngest of these girls was barely twelve years old.
Both Leto and Moneo turned and entered the ramp downward into the darkness and coolness of the Citadel.
"The Golden path must persist." Leto thought, " Humans have come so far, overcoming, tyrants, landscapes and machines. I cannot have those abominations threaten everything I've done. The last daemons of Earth must be utterly destroyed. I have millions of years of magic locked inside of me. I know things forbidden to even the great wizards. Even the great witch Willow Rosenberg. I'm going to get the young girls together, transform them and arm them with every weapon in the Atreides arsenal. The abominations must be destroyed. I am going to unleash the Slayers.