over Arrakis in 10162 To anyone not knowing his parentage, the boy would have seemed like any other Fremen youngster, the product of generations of life on the desert planet This situation suited his father perfectly Pardot Kynes had been forced to take dramatic nsky action in order to make a place for himself among the desert folk it was essen tial that his heir be recognized as such Whatever paternal feelings he might have felt for his son paled before his desire to hasten the effects of the palmanes on the Arrakeen ecology His upbringing suited Liet Kynes as well By the age of five he was accompanying his mates to the outlying planting zones, and while not yet demonstrating the sort of bnl Uance which characterized his lather s work the younger Kynes acquitted himself well and was respected by the other young Fremen This respect was not earned only b} his grasp of the workings of the ecological transformation Like other boys his age, Liet-Kynes spent a good deal of time learning and polishing other skills for which the Fremen were known tracking hunting and combat in many forms He proved especially talent ed m knife fighting and by the time he essayed his first sandnde, he had nothing to fear from any of his comrades in sietch, nor, by extension from any but the most skilled out sietch fighters KYNES LIET 359 In 10168 after his successful initiation into the sandnders ranks Liet Kynes found his father offering him more specialized training Over the next seven years Liet Kynes served as go between for the older man journeying to the palmanes and carry ing reports on their progress back to his father Afraid of drawing unwanted attention to the existence of these areas, Pardot Kynes rarely visited them himself Liet Kynes posi tion as lieutenant for Kynes the Umma did not exempt him from his duties as a member of Sietch Tabr however and Forad Tabr s Naib saw to it that his leader's heir-apparent did not forget it He was so much a part of Sietch Tabr that it was assumed he would try for Stilgar s burda after his blood brother bested Forad in 10175 Stilgar s challenge had been erne of many made throughout the Fremen sietches following Pardot Kynes' demise at Plaster Basin and Liet Kynes had been absent from Tabr at the time Stilgar took Forad s place as Naib But when young Kynes returned it was to convey his intentions to continue his father s work wife (he palmanes Pairiot Kynes had simplified this task for him by petitioning for and receiving, permission fiorn Shaddam IV to have his son succeed him in the Imperial service A year after his father s death Liet Kynes returned to Sietch Tabr for a more extended visit During the months of his stay he married Falra, a Tabr woman with whom he had been raised Ltet Kynes then earned on another of his late fattier s practices by leav ing Tabr a few weeks after the wedding, not to return for more than three months Charu the couple's daughter was born die following year Stilgar aad his wife Misra stood as godparents to the child and the girl & father made one of his infrequent visits to see the .