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Paul-Muad’Dib enters the governor’s mansion in Arrakeen on the evening of his victory. The Reverend Mother advises the Emperor to summon Count Fenring. The Guild agents say they don’t know how the battle will go-but that means Muad’Dib can’t know, either. The Emperor is taken safely to his ship with the Reverend Mother, his daughter Princess Irulan, and two Guild agents. The battle is chaotic as the stronghold is breached Sardaukar are awed to see Fremen riding sandworms into battle. The Baron grabs Alia, but she stabs him with a dark needle she calls “the Atreides gom jabbar,” killing him. Alia says she allowed herself to be captured, and she inserts herself in the Reverend Mother’s mind, frightening her.Īs Alia predicts, the Emperor’s stronghold is soon under attack. The Emperor is angry that he has been roped into this expensive and “stupid affair.” The Emperor reveals that he raided the southern desert and took Alia captive, at great personal cost. The Emperor has brought his entire retinue-from Sardaukar to hairdressers and poets-along with the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim, the Emperor’s Truthsayer. The Baron Harkonnen is in an audience chamber with the Emperor himself. He thinks: How little the universe knows about the nature of real cruelty! Paul feels emptied, diseased-and he also feels an "old-man wisdom" chuckle and rub its hands within him. Things go well for Paul, but they receive a garbled message that Paul understands: Sietch Tabr was raided his son, Leto II, is dead and Alia is held hostage. An enormous storm hits, and the battle begins. They release the two Sardaukar they captured in response, the Emperor raises the CHOAM Company flag, signaling that he doesn’t care who wins, Atreides or Harkonnen. Everything is in place, though Gurney and Stilgar each have doubts that Paul soothes. Paul, Stilgar, and Gurney observe the enormous temporary structure where the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV is staying on Arrakis.