If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. Leto knew the innermost sensation of what she saw. Again she turned and examined the entire horizon. Siona was feeling the loss of all reference points. She was abandoned in dangerous space.
Nature makes no leaps.
All of the bitterness was there and a hint of the spice from her dried food. I give you this opportunity to be alone with me, to share with me, and you spend this time without concern. You waste it. This interested her. . . . Every living thing has a fire within it, some slow, some very fast.