Dune
“Here’s the reason this Fremen has taken service with me, to ask that one question. My answer could precipitate violence or . . . what? She seeks an answer from me: the meaning of a knife. She’s called the Shadow in the Chakobsa tongue. Knife, that’s “Death Maker” in Chakobsa. She’s getting restive. I must answer now. Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
Jessica said: “It’s a maker –”
“Eighe-?e-?e-?e-?e-?e!” Mapes wailed. It was a sound of both grief and elation.
She trembled so ha...rd the knife blade sent glittering shards of reflection shooting around the room.
Jessica waited, poised. She had intended to say the knife was a maker of death and then add the ancient word, but every sense warned her now, all the deep training of alertness that exposed meaning in the most casual muscle twitch.
The key word was . . . maker.
Maker? Maker.
Still, Mapes held the knife as though ready to use it.MoreLess
Jessica said: “It’s a maker –”
“Eighe-?e-?e-?e-?e-?e!” Mapes wailed. It was a sound of both grief and elation.
She trembled so ha...rd the knife blade sent glittering shards of reflection shooting around the room.
Jessica waited, poised. She had intended to say the knife was a maker of death and then add the ancient word, but every sense warned her now, all the deep training of alertness that exposed meaning in the most casual muscle twitch.
The key word was . . . maker.
Maker? Maker.
Still, Mapes held the knife as though ready to use it.MoreLess
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