rs his senior in age and experience, and his opinions were taken seriously Lpon completion of his schooling m 13652, he was appointed to a minor clerkship in the cipher division of the Ixian intelligence community The appointment was a cover intended to conceal from outsiders the caretul training of a new Ixian plenipotentiary Malky was provided with copies of all important diplomatic messages and told to analyze them Mental like, and predict the events which might fol low their receipt, these exercises provided much of the youth s advanced training In 13659, Malky was put on a permanent retainer bv the Inquisitors and released from all normal duties From that ;ear until his recall in 13688, he was free to visit any of die known worlds, frequently traveling as messenger extraordinaire for his masters but more often as a pnvate citizen His travels gave him an overview of the vanous planets and their workings under Leto s Peace, they also provided the Inquisitors, to whom Malky continued to report, a similar comprehension When the Inquisitors decided that their objective, the polishing sophisticating and jading of their representative was complete they commanded him to return to the home world There he spent a final three years studying the society-m miniature to which his superiors proposed to send him the court ol the Lord Leto Their many years of association proved pleasurable for both Malky and the God Emptror In the new Ixian Ambassador Leto found a clever, oddly courageous man who seemed not to be in the least intimidated by the Emperor s godhead Malky in turn disco\ered that his sharp honed intellect and wit were finally being challenged in the manner for which they were trained The relationship between them appears to have been both more and less than friendship While each was always suspicious of the other a kind of understanding existed be 373 tween them which permitted greater mtima-cy than Leto ever allowed his more trusted aides Their relationship sorely perplexed many members of the court, Leto's majordo-mo Moneo included, sad Leto himself was sometimes puzzled by his own fondness for "the old rogue " Save for a bnef return to Ix in the seventh year of his service, the time at which cells from his body were taken to use in growing his "mirror-clone," Hwi Notee, Malky did not leave Arrakis until his recall in 13712 He left under protest, warning the God Emperor that his replacement was "less than a fool, ' but his objections were ignored by the Inquisitors They had their own plans for Malky primarily for his help in training and educating Hwi Noree He did not meet the God Emperor again until 13724, when Leto seat RM Tertius Ei leen Anteac to die Fish Speaker garrison on Ix with orders to find and capture the ex-Ambassador and return him to Arrakis for questioning Malky was brought back (though part of the pace for his capture was Anteac's death) and, as arrogant in his familiarity with the God Emperor as ever, confirmed Leto's suspicions about Hwi Noree It was his last act m any capacity Leto, prevented both by memories of comradeship with Malky and fay the knowledge that the Ixian was so closely related to his betrothed, could not kill him, Nevertheless, Malky alive and free was too great a risk to be allowed, Leto made his desire for the man's eltrmna tion known to Moneo and the majordomo executed him at once, relieving his master of the problem C W Farther refereae"; HWI NOREE tx Retnlik Malvar Ixum Foreign Policy in the Post-PaitttM Era (Gioia.