ions stood between the young sister dnd the level of expertise to which she might aspire The Sisterhood was confident of their ability to remove those barriers or force the girl over them They had the knowledge of centuries of such manipulation, both m their files and in the memories of their Reverend Mothers In the same year as her daughter s tnp to Grumman, Sister Alexius Gayle Chenoeh achieved the status of Reverend Mother She was appointed B G representative to the Ixians and transferred to that distant planet never to see her child again Alexius's survival of the melange overdose was duly noted on Sister Q V Chenoeh s file, a candidate's chance of surviving the initiation as a Reverend Mother was always considered better if a near relative had previously emerged from it safely The young mnemomst was frequently sent off-world after her initial assignment By 13696, a decade after her first trip to Grumman, she was serving as senior recorder on some of the Sisterhood's most sensi tivc missions, including a ' diplomatic" visit to Giedi Prime to revive another Cult of Alia (The Cult would come to Leto II s attention in 13718 as the B G s latest attempt to locate spice hoards For over twenty years however, the Sisterhood s hand in the revival would remain unknown ) Sister Chenoeh s services to the B G did not stop at those of recorder hi 13694 and again in 13710 she bore daughters as part of their breeding program The elder girl, Clansse, proved far less talented than her mother and was eventually married to a minor official in the God Emperor's court The second daughter-unnamed--was taken from her mother and killed by a delegation from the Fish Speakers garrison on Wallach K only moments after her birth Since the Sisterhood could not be certain of the reasons for Leto II s objection to the second birth, it was decided not to risk needlessly so valuable a member of the community Sister Chenoeh had no more children CHENOEH 158 CHENOEH In 13722, she was sent as one of a pair of recorders to observe the God Emperor and his court on Arrakis in preparation for the Bene Gessent's decennial report (This report served m part to brief those who would form the B G Embassy to Leto II) Along with her co-worker, Sister Tawsuoko, Sister Chenoeh confirmed the execution of the nine "false historians" the God Emperor had or dered in 12335, much of their case rested on a handwritten account of the incident penned by Ikonicre, the Lord Leto's majordomo in that year Sister Tawsuoko, according to their report, was responsible for the document's discovery A chance for even more important disco\ -enes was given Sister Cbenoeh, however, when the God bmperor invited her on one of his infrequent peregrinations At one point in their ramble along the Royal Road, the sister was invited to trot alongside the Royal Cart and converse personaBy wttfa fee God Emperor, which honor she immediately accepted It was during this brief walk that Sister Chenoeh was gives die information which appears in the Welheck Abridgment (Lib Conf Temporary Series 578) as well as that which was found among her papers after her death and assembled as tfre Chenoeh Report The first, intended for immediate relay to her superiors, was a declaration of the God Emperor's knowledge and purposes he used Sister Cheaoeh to inform her Chapter House that he was aware of their attempts to suborn his Fish Speakers, that it was his intention to restore the "outward view" that humanity had lost, and that a parallel could be drawn between the Sisterhood's failed attempt to produce their Kwisatz Haderach and his own "achievement" of Siona The second, secret message was far murkier and more troubling to the Sister The Lord Leto described briefly the sensation of having been pre-born.