
I escaped.
She restored the kit with its sealed packet and fastened it once more against her back.
I have broken through your defenses, Leto.
Siona thought then about the cryptic volumes. She felt certain that something hidden in those lines of cipher would open the way for her revenge.
l will destroy you, Leto!
Not We will destroy you! That was not Siona's way. She would do it herself.
She turned and strode toward the orchards beyond the river's mowed border. As she walked she repeated her oath, adding to it aloud the old Fremen formula which terminated in her full name:
"Siona Ibn Fuad al-Seyefa Atreides it is who curses you, Leto. You will pay in full!"
The following is from the Hadi Benotto translation of the volumes discovered at Dar-es-Balat:
I WAS born Leto Atreides II more than three thousand standard years ago, measuring from the moment when I cause these words to be printed. My father was Paul Muad'Dib. My mother was his Fremen consort, Chani. My maternal grandmother was Faroula, a noted herbalist among the Fremen. My paternal grandmother was Jessica, a product of the Bene Gesserit breeding scheme in their search for a male who could share the powers of the Sisterhood's Reverend Mothers. My maternal grandfather was Liet-Kynes, the planetologist who organized the ecological transformation of Arrakis. My paternal grandfather was Leto Atreides, descendant of the House of Atreus and tracing his ancestry directly back to the Greek original.
Enough of these begats!
My paternal grandfather died as many good Greeks did, attempting to kill his mortal enemy, the old Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. Both of them rest uncomfortably now in my ancestral memories. Even my father is not content. I have done what he feared to do and now his shade must share in the consequences.
