Dune Messiah (pgs. 96-106) Summary

Out in the desert, Alia studies the corpse of a young woman. Semuta addiction in a Fremen and Tleilaxu poisoning are a rare enough combination for Paul to assign the investigation to his sister. Uncomfortable in a stillsuit, suspicious of her ghola pilot, angry that people expect her and Paul always to do the superhuman, and finding no strange truths in the evidence, Alia wants to go home. The earlier Reverend Mothers inside her advise her to "be at peace " and accept what she is, for there are "compensations."

Back in the air, Alia notes that Hayt both flies and thinks like Idaho. Hayt says he is amused by the feelings he gets when people speak about his former life. He believes he is probably Idaho. He offends Alia by calling her by her given name. Over...