cteristic which encouraged his belief m hts success-and needed a means of keeping informed about the young rebel's actions He had often considered assigning d Fish Speaker to spy on Siona for him, but knew that the very loyalty that bound his female soldiers to him might lead to the undoing of his scheme the average Fish Speaker, on discovenng that Siona was capable of posing a real threat to the God Emperor, could be depended upon to disregard previous orders and accept the consequences of eliminating Siona herself Leto needed a fanatic, then, who would be capable of carrying out any duty if told that her God demanded it Leto found what he needed in Nayla He bound her still closer to him with the gift of a cryskmfe, an antique which had once belonged to Misra one of Stilgar's wives in the Dune days Nayla was as impressed bv the gesture as Leto had expected, accepting the blade from his hands in the old Fremen ntual and swearing to its use in his service Nayla's loyalty to him thus insured, the God Emperor commanded that she obey Siona m all things, no matter how heretical the young woman's activities might become Nayla was to keep her master informed of all of Siona's plans and actions but under no circumstances was she to attempt to interfere with them Nayla was not assigned to duty m any of the Arrakis garrisons She was instead furnished with money and a place to live near the Fish Speaker s school in Onn If any question concerning her means of making a living were raised, she was simply to explain that she was a personal bodyguard {her physique would confirm such a story) currently between employers and enjoying a short vacation Her real task, of course, was to make contact with Siona's rebels and, through them, to gain entry to Siona's confidence The process took several months During that same time, Nayla was often summoned to the Citadel and it was in the course of one such visit that a receiver/transmitter was NYCALLISTh planted inside her skull The God Emperor performed the surgery himself, preferring the difficulties involved in the procedure to those he might face in employing an outside physician Nayla was not told of die reasons for Leto's doing as he did, it was enough for her to know that her Lord now had the means to speak directly to her, inside her head, and to receive her answers as directly By the end of 13721, Nayla had been taken so far into the rebel network that she was allowed to stay in the secret quarters hidden in the catacombs under Qnn Siona had evaluated her as an unimaginative but dependable aide, capable of quelling troublemakers both inside and outside their group, and had come to depend on her strength and obedience Once Nayla was so accepted, she arranged for a hidden keyboard and screen to be installed m her room, on which she could compose and encode her messages prior to their transmission to the God Emperor This device awed and frightened her almost as much as that of the implant, but s