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it well.
"One moment," Teg said.
Lucilla became aware of shouting at a distance. A heavy thumping explosion
sounded from nearby and then another one more distant. Dust sifted from the
cornice above the door to Teg's sitting room.
"What was that?" Schwangyu again, her voice overly loud.
Lucilla moved to place herself between Duncan and the wall to the hallway.
Duncan stared at the door, his body poised for defense.
"That first blast was what I expected them to do." Teg again. "The second, I
fear, was what they did not expect."
A whistle piped nearby loud enough to cover something Schwangyu said.
"That's it Bashar!" Patrin.
"What is happening?" Schwangyu demanded.
"The first explosion, dear Reverend Mother, was your quarters being destroyed by
our attackers. The second explosion was us destroying the attackers."
"I just got the signal, Bashar!" Patrin again. "We got them all. They came
down by floater from the no-ship just as you expected."
"The ship?" Teg's voice was full of angry demand.
"Destroyed the instant it came through the space fold. No survivors."
"You fools!" Schwangyu screamed. "Do you know what you've done?"
"I carried out my orders to protect that boy from any attack," Teg said. "By
the way, weren't you supposed to be in your quarters at this hour?"
"What?"
"They were after you when they blasted your quarters. The Tleilaxu are very
dangerous, Reverend Mother."
"I don't believe you!"
"I suggest you go look. Patrin, let her pass."
As she listened, Lucilla heard the unspoken argument. The Mentat Bashar had
been trusted here more than a Reverend Mother and Schwangyu knew it. She would
be desperate. That was clever, suggesting her quarters had been destroyed. She
might not believe it, though. Foremost in Schwangyu's mind now would be the
realization that both Teg and Lucilla recognized her complicity in the attack.
There was no telling how many others were aware of this. Patrin knew, of
course.
Duncan stared at the closed door, his head tipped slightly to the right. There
was a curious expression on his face, as though he saw through the door and
actually watched the people out there.
Schwangyu spoke, the most careful control in her voice. "I don't believe my
quarters were destroyed." She knew Lucilla was listening.
"There is only one way to make sure," Teg said.
Clever! Lucilla thought. Schwangyu could not make a decision until she was
certain whether the Tleilaxu had acted treacherously.
"You will wait here for me, then! That's an order!" Lucilla heard the swish of
Schwangyu's robes as the Reverend Mother departed.
Very bad emotional control, Lucilla thought. What this revealed about Teg,
though, was equally disturbing. He did it to her! Teg had kept a Reverend
Mother off balance.
The door in front of Duncan swung open. Teg stood there, one hand on the latch.
"Quick!" Teg said. "We must be out of the Keep before she returns."
"Out of the Keep?" Lucilla did not hide her shock.
"Quick, I say! Patrin has prepared a way for us."
"But I must --"
"You must nothing! Come as you are. Follow me or we will be forced to take
you."
"Do you really think you could take a . . ." Lucilla broke off. This was a new
Teg in front of her and she knew he would not have made such a threat unless he
was prepared to carry it out.
"Very well," she said. She took Duncan's hand and followed Teg out of his
quarters.
Patrin stood in the hallway looking to his right. "She's gone," the old man
said. He looked at Teg. "You know what to do, Bashar?"
"Pat!"
Lucilla had never before heard Teg use the batman's diminutive name.
Patrin grinned, a gleaming full-toothed smile. "Sorry, Bashar. The excitement,
you know. I'll leave you to it, then. I have my part to play."
Teg waved Lucilla and Duncan down the hallway to the right. She obeyed and
heard Teg close on her heels. Duncan's hand was sweaty in her hand. He pulled
free and strode beside her without looking back.
The suspensor-drop at the end of the hallway was guarded by two of Teg's own
people. He nodded to them. "Nobody follows."
They spoke in unison: "Right, Bashar."
Lucilla realized as she entered the drop with Duncan and Teg that she had chosen
sides in a dispute whose workings she did not fully understand. She could feel
the movements of the Sisterhood's politics like a swift current of water pouring
all around her. Usually, the movement remained mostly a gentle wave washing the
strand, but now she sensed a great destructive surge preparing to thunder its
surf upon her.
Duncan spoke as they emerged into the sorting chamber for the south pillbox.
"We should all be armed," he said.
"We will be very soon," Teg said. "And I hope you're prepared to kill anyone
who tries to stop us."
The significant fact is this: No Bene Tleilax female has ever been seen away
from the protection of their core planets. (Face Dancer mules who simulate
females do not count in this analysis. They cannot be breeders.) The Tleilaxu
sequester their females to keep them from our hands. This is our primary
deduction. It must also be in the eggs that the Tleilaxu Masters conceal their
most essential secrets.
-Bene Gesserit Analysis -- Archives #XOXTM99 ..... 041
"So we meet at last," Taraza said.
She stared across the two meters of open space between their chairs at Tylwyth
Waff. Her analysts assured her that this man was Tleilaxu Master of Masters.
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