the lightning fast pregnancy forced upon her Her emotions changed so quickly thdt bhe vould no longer be certain even of what she was feeling, or why Once after snapping at Paul for wearing a shabby old jacket and having been told that even an emperor has his favorite clothing, she had found herself giving water to the dead And her a Fremen' A fog surrounded her limiting her vision unUl she could see only as far ahead as the birth Her life she once told Paul would have to begin again from that day His silence following the remark only added to her confusion Paul returned with her to Sietch Tabr for the children to be born in sietch, as she had been certain he would The moment came unexpectedly when she was conversing with the ghola of Duncan Idaho and with his ATREIDES LADY CHANI ATRE1DES GHANIMA guidance she made it back into the sietch from the spot she had chosen for a look out over the desert Her last thought, before she abandoned herself to the rnindlessness of labor, was that she had never remembered to ask Usul if he knew she earned twins He had always spoken of their child, in the singular, surely it was impossible that he did not know the troth? Less than an hour after the onset of contractions, Cham's son and daughter had beea bom Thin, but healthy-looking, they divided their first few minutes of life between crying and sipping at the Water of Conception fed them by their godmother Harah These were minutes their mother did not share Chum, calling for her Usul, had died giving buth to the children Paul named Leto and Ghanima Even with Cham s death, her role as a pawn in the game of empire did not end It was with the prospect of restoring her flesh as a ghola that Scytale, the face dancer bargained first with Alia, then with Paul Bijaz, trie dwarf intended to (rigger Dancan Idaho into attacking Paul, again offered a revival of that flesh after Paul killed the Face Dancer Not until Duncan Idaho slew Bijaz puffing his master out of temptation's reach, was Cham s body taken to the deathstill At die ceremony held that evening to release her sprit, the Princess frulan astonished the friends of Chant who had gathered for the File by joining their circle There was muttering at her presence, and anger, since it was believed that she would defile the ritual and bring disaster to all (hose attending Their concern proved unfounded When her turn came, the Royal Consort rose from her seat, walking to the pile of Chant's possessions mat lay heaped on the cavern floor, and picked up a small stone pendant "I was a friend of Chain's," she said, and usually ironclad control slipping from her voice during the unfamiliar words "She taught me that nobility and noble birth are two things, and I have learned something about myself " Then speaking ftemen halt mgly, she said, ' Ish yarn al-ahdab had bat-u '-a hunchback does not see his own honch It was the first sign of Irulan's defection, the shifting of sides that would end in her becoming one of the adults responsible for Paul's and Chain's twins And even Aha whom Harah had restrained from driving Irulan out of the cavern on sight, had no quarrel with the fitness of the epitaph C T Further references ATREIDES LADY JESSICA ATREIDBS PAUL MUAD DIB FREMEN MLNSTRLATION FREMEN WATER CUSTOMS CORRINO PRINCESS IRULAN STILGAR Princess Irulan Atreides Corrmo Muad Dib Family Commentaries Lib Conf Temp Series 437 Princess Irulan MuatfDib The Man tr Mffyau Gwulador Airakis Studies 4 (Grumman United Worlds) at Ada Harq The Mother of God (Grumman Tern) ATREIDES, GHANIMA.