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Princess Irulan comes to the planet Arrakis to wed one kind of a monster or another, bringing a wedding gown, a chainmail dress, and a Golden Crown with herself. For a beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. Every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows this.
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“Then I reckon we’ve just discovered both our levers. You’re too honorable. I’m too prideful. If we were not indifferent to each other but had been Kanlys we would have been easily plotting each other’s early demise. But look at us instead. Dancing in our mutual indifference, rather than trying to kill each other.”
“My Mother also told me you are very eloquent,” he replied. “She did not exaggerate. You have a way with words, Princess.”
“Why do you call me Princess?” she shot back. “I’m your Empress now.” She paused and smiled sardonically. “In name only.”
And wearing the Golden Crown of her ancestors and joking and…flirting with the man who was trying to bring the collapse of her entire dynasty. If this was the design the old crone had prepared for her, Irulan was going to kill her with her own hands before she died and left this worldly plane.
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Chapter 15