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[preborns]

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[imperatour]

I like the way they sing. I thought it was birds or insects at night. There are some, but you can hear the frogs too. Did you know that?

That's most of the world, but that isn't my home. My home was a green piece of it, unspoiled. Like parts of the Old World before the Old World was ruined. It was one of the only places left like it I think.

Was your home always like that? Sand and sun?

[preborns]

I did, yes. You can hear them coming awake at night and singing to one another, it's lovely.

A green piece? You were on a planet that became a desert, then. Was it terraformed, or was it just humanity?

Arrakis was. We were changing it, bringing it water and green again.
Perhaps we shouldn't have.

[imperatour]

Men killed it.
Australia. That's what my world was called.

Why would you want it to be green again?

[preborns]

Ahhhh. I've heard it, the name.
Men do such things all over. Destroying worlds.

The city people want it. But Fremen, Fedaykin -- they worry it will make us soft.

[imperatour]

Our god turns on the waterfalls for the masses and always says the same thing:

"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water, it will take hold of you and you will resent its absence."

I hate him.
There is nothing noble in keeping people suffering.