Thank heaven we have Grandmother's arboretum to have our 'evenings' in. He certainly doesn't mind candlelight and cushions there!" Gha-nima also insisted that Irulan have living quarters separate from the family, and that she stay oat of Ghanima's work room and the children's school rooms. She did join the family for dinners and often accompanied the group to picnics at Sietch Tabr, Probably the fact that neither Ghanima nor al-Ada had lived secure childhoods led them to develop a close family framework in which their children could flourish. The oldest child, Trebor, was the delight of both his parents and Leto. A rusty-haired cherub, he seems to have accompanied his father even into die privacy of al-Ada's library. Ghanima remembers that "We couldn't believe we had produced this silly, darling little boy. After the intense childhood (or really the lack of any real childhood) I had, I saw his Hghthearted existence as idyllic. Farad'n and I probably spoiled that child-we had so much more time to give to him than we did to the other children who followed-but to this day I can still see his beaming face as his chubby little legs hurried to keep up with his father's long strides." Eventually the other boys were born, Lliwis, Regor, Tisamenus, and Boris; but Trebor remained Leto's favorite, becoming the first in the long line of Atreides stewards to serve the God Emperor, The first three girls, Eleanor, Helene, and Elaine, were born during the period when Ghanima was working with Voices from the immediate past. (Years later, when she discovered the identity of her paternal great-grandmother, Ghanima realized what had inspired their names.) leunne, die next to the youngest child, was named for al-Ada's sister, and the last child, Noree, was named for a figure who haunted al-Ada's dreams in hopes of "exorcising" her from Us nights. All the children were trained in academic disciplines and in prana-bindu control. The boys were given training in sword and knife attack and defense while the girls were trained in the Bern Gesserii "weirding" way of hand-to-hand combat. This insistence on martial arts training seemed out of place in Leto's peace- able kingdom, but both Ghanima and al-Ada feared a recurrence of assassination attempts and wanted the children prepared to defend themselves. To balance their martial training, the children also perfected various creative talents and skills, and Ghanima notes with pleasure the family evenings of music and drama.