life Vladimir won a breathing space with the attainment of Arrakis Perhaps the romantic inheritance from Gunseng now reasserted itself Perhaps he desired a change of taste-his pederasty awakening doubts about his mascu limty or curiosity about sexual alternatives Whatever the case when the Bene Gessent Reverend Mother Croesid offered him a con sort trained in the erotic arts Vladimir did not question her motives He took one look at the willowy figure of Tamdia Nerus and was enticed ( Tanidia Nerus is now be heved to have been a carefully selected trained and rejuvenated Gams Helen Mohiam) Several accounts say Vladimir loved her Others reject this uncharacteristic emoton out of hand Still others advance the notion that Vladimir believed Tamdia to be his mother reincarnated The truth may exist somewhere among these propositions What is known is that the affair was stormy and brief Tamdia fled or was spirited from Harko in the eighth month of her pregnancy under threatening urcumstdnLss and subsequently vanished behind the Bene Gessent cloak of secrecy from which she had emerged Only in Croesia s Memoirs can be found a short exchange from Tamdia s report to her supen or shedding light on what occurred with the Baron CROESIA.