Beyond a golden airlock, in a room whose methane-based life support still clattered somewhere in the bowels of the Inner City, you found the Lector: a mind built in the image of Man's. A tutor for the children of the Highborn, to ensure them a place in the Bureaus and a new Name for their lineage. To Hmnos, who was still bound to the caste-duties of the sewer-fishers, it was salvage beyond imagining: a find which could make him a king among beggars, Dune concept art by Rembrandt