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Garan frowned. "Do you want to be the one to explain to Rabban why
we're late returning from patrol?"

"Let's go," Kiel answered quickly.

As the worm-poison infused the cistern, the Harkonnen troopers
hurried back to their ornithopter, reluctantly content to let the villagers
discover the prank for themselves.




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It is said that the Fremen has no conscience, having lost it in a burning
desire for revenge. This is foolish. Only the rawest primitive and the
sociopath have no conscience. The Fremen possesses a highly evolved
world view centered on the welfare of his people. His sense of
belonging to the community is almost stronger than his sense of self. It
is only to outsiders that these desert-dwellers seem brutish ... just as
outsiders appear to them.

-Pardot Kynes, The People of Arrakis


"Luxury is for the noble-born, Liet," Pardot Kynes, Imperial
Planetologist to Arrakis, said to his son as the groundcar trundled
across the uneven ground. "On this planet you must instantly become
aware of your own surroundings, and remain alert at all times. If you
fail to learn this lesson, you won't live long."

As Kynes operated the simple controls, he gestured toward the buttery
morning light that melted across the stark dunes. "There are rewards
here, too." Kynes exhaled a long breath between his hard chapped lips.

Young Liet stared out the scratched windowplaz. Unlike his father,
who reeled off whatever random thoughts occurred to him, making
pronouncements that the Fremen heeded as if they were weighty
spiritual matters, Liet preferred silence. He narrowed his eyes to study
the landscape, searching for any small thing out of its place. Always
alert.

On such a harsh planet, one had to develop stored perceptions, each of
them linked to every moment of survival. Though his father was much
older, Liet wasn't certain the Planetologist understood as much as he
himself did. The mind of Pardot Kynes contained powerful concepts,