Gains Helen wrote 'If there is, or ever has been, any love in me to give I gave it first to that charming girl who took a shy and awkward newcomer under her soft wing Only Jessica, afterward, could have shared a place with her in my heart' One hopes fervently that future translations will confirm or disprove the tantalizing possibih ty that * 'Alynda ' was Ramallo Indeed, the strange history of th& relation ship between these three Reverend Mothers will perhaps never be fully revealed That Reverend Mother Ramallo had the protoundest effect on Jessica on the occasion of their only meeting is entirely comprehensible In the act of becoming the new Reverend Moth er of the Fremen the Lady Jessica literally and figuratively absorbed the life and being of her predecessor How closely that life was linked with her past, she was never to know Jessica did realize however the exceptional quality of the body of experience and value of spirit she inherited from Mother Ramallo but she did not realize until far too late that the ceremony also created St Aha of the Knife, the Abomination G E Further references R M Decius Nancy Croesia Uemons tr Ewan Gwaladar B G Foundation Studies 3 (Diana Tevis) R M Gams Helen Mohiam Diaries Lib Com Temp Ser 133 REPKIT. A kit containing repair and replace ment essentials for Fremen stillsmts Repkits have been found throughout the digs in the major sietches and are assumed to have been as much a part of everyday Fremen life as the stillsuit itself The kits found as part of the traveling package, contained spare filtplugs two or three lengths of watertube, patch material and an awl and polynvets Larger kits found in most yalis contain larger amounts of the same supplies The lengths of watertube are identical to the original issue equipment They provided insurance in case one of the tubes was cut by a rock while climbing or creased bv careless sleeping The awl s point could distend and even slit the ends of tubing so that a self shrinking splice could be made in the field The patch material is the same nonpermeable outer layer fabric used in original manufacture The polynvets are small, solid cylinders be fore they are used, but approximately 3 mm of each end is a malleable melange-ethelene compound The middle section apparently cured differently is a harder version of the same material The diameter is about 4 mm, and lengths vary between 7 mm and 9 mm Slices, rips holes and tears m the original outer layer could be repaired by applying a piece from the repkit to the outside of the affected area, using the awl to penetrate both new and old layers and attaching the new over the old with polynvets through the holes Once a rivet was in place, finger REVEREND MOTHER 433 REVEREND MOTHER pressure on both ends would peen the malleable ends and bold the two layers of fite together Judging by the number of extensively patched stillsuits discovered, the nvet repair was not only satisfactory in the field but was structurally strong enough to last a long time The rivets alone were not enough, however, upon the wearer's return to sietch the rough patches were heat-treated at the edges to guarantee a waterproof seal Anthropologtzers have theorized about the extent to which the reports' fUtplugs have been modified from general issue standards Conceivably, the detailed adjustment (presumably for fit) of many of the spates indicates the prudence of the owner and therefore aided survival Studies are underway to process data about numbers of plugs, numbers of modified plugs, proportions at different sites, and general condition of the associated stillsuits The goal is significant correlations indicating survival propensities of different characteristics Cynics have won dered if, since the universal sizing of filtplugs seems to have been reasonably efficient, the Fremen who fiddled with their spares were the lazy and incompetent who \vere "excused" from spending time on more important tasks The repkits appear to have been the most important emergency supplies earned by Fremen They seem to have been earned everywhere and always Keeping the stillsuit in good repair was a very high Fremen pnonty J L G Further references) FILTPLUO WATEBTUBB REVEREND MOTHER.