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Family life of the Royal Creche is difficult for many people to understand,
but I shall try to give you a capsule view of it. My father had only one real
friend, I think. That was Count Hasimir Fenring, the genetic-eunuch and one of
the deadliest fighters in the Imperium. The Count, a dapper and ugly little
man, brought a new slave-concubine to my father one day and I was dispatched
by my mother to spy on the proceedings. All of us spied on my father as a matter
of self-protection. One of the slave-concubines permitted my father under the
Bene Gesserit-Guild agreement could not, of course, bear a Royal Successor,
but the intrigues were constant and oppressive in their similarity. We became
adept, my mother and sisters and I, at avoiding subtle instruments of death.
It may seem a dreadful thing to say, but I 'm not at all sure my father was
innocent in all these attempts. A Royal Family is not like other families.
Here was a new slave-concubine, then, red-haired like my father, willowy and
graceful. She had a dancer's muscles, and her training obviously had included
neuro-enticement. My father looked at her for a long time as she postured
unclothed before him. Finally he said: "She is too beautiful. We will save her
as a gift. " You have no idea how much consternation this restraint created in
the Royal Creche. Subtlety and self-control were, after all, the most deadly
threats to us all.
-- "In My Father's House" by the Princess Irulan
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