Since the most direct way of achieving this goal involved the children's becoming enmeshed in their ancestral memories, Alia continually tried to interest diem in the spice trance. Tne Regent's suicide relieved the Sisterhood, aad their Report carries this tone despite the Lady Jessica's vigorous attempts to change it (Jessica's contribution to the final report was her last act of involvement with her former Sisters): The kind of ruler Leto II will become cannot at present be known. He has undergone a strange transformation that we do not fully understand, and the danger of his following his aunt's path must still be present, regardless of his assurances of the contrary. That is> unimportant at the moment Of far greater importance was the freeing of the Impe-rium from the control of the Lad) Alia. Had it not been for her death-reported b> witnesses on the scene as an obvious suicide, perhaps as a result of a final takeover by her inner voices- she could have continued to rule for several centuries by regenerating her cellular structure. As with all Abominations, the only cure is death. The Report concludes here, but an appendix indicates that the Sisterhood had already begun investigations of two other possible Abominations: Leto IT and Ghanima Further references: R M. Lucius Ellen Callen and R M Hallos Deborah Scales, eds , Report on Aim Atreides, ATREIDES LADY CHANI 47 ATREIDES LADY CHANI Lib Conf Temp Series 169, Bene Gessent Judiciary Files File No 2078475, pp 2889-2999 (available only upon application to the Bene Gessent) ATREIDES, LADY CHATQ (10177-10209) Born in Sietch Tabr in 10177, Chani was the daughter of Liet-Kynes, the Impena] Plan-etologist and secret leader of the Fremen, and Falra, a Tabr woman with whom Ltet-Kynes had been raised Stilgar, Naib of the sietch and blood-brother to her father, stood as godfather to Chani while the Naib's wife Misra stood as godmother and performed the Water of Conception ritual for the newborn Liet-Kynes was away from the sietch far more than he was present, and Chani was cared fgr chiefly by Falra, with some assistance from Misra and the other woman (Although Fremen children were raised by their individual households and not communally, every adult m a community accepted some responsibility for the welfare of every child, the nearer the adult's relationship to the child's parents, of course, the greater the obligation ) She quickly learned the earliest lessons Fremen children were taught that crying was not allowed since it wasted the body's moisture, and thai wasting water, in any form, was an unpardonable sin She naturally grew more and more independent, for independence was encourage in all sietch youngsters so that they not burden the tribe The Fremen had learned centuries earlier that weak, dependent