Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. Pie. Whoever invented the pie? Here was a great person. Men and their works have been a disease on the surface of their planets before now. Nature tends to compensate for diseases, to remove or encapsulate them, to incorporate them into the system in her own way. Step right up. Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep. Will this sadness that makes me cry my heart out — will it ever end? The answer, of course, is yes. One day the sadness will end. That gum you like is going to come back in style. Snuffles was my slave name, you can call me snowball because my fur is pretty and white.

Think on it, Chani; the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.

Step right up.

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