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“She left quietly, but Leto could see that Hwi, too, was tortured. There was no mistaking the deep sadness in her for the humanity Leto had sacrificed. She knew what Leto knew: they would have been friends, lovers, companions in an ultimate sharing between the sexes. Her masters had planned for her to know.”

“‘To my certain knowledge, when I am no longer consciously present here among you, when I am here only as a fearsome creature of the desert, many people will look back upon me as a tyrant.
‘Fair enough. I have been tyrannical.
‘A tyrant—not fully human, not insane, merely a tyrant.’“

“Presently, Idaho permitted himself that devil-may-care grin for which he had been so well known. ‘Then I will speak to the first Leto and to Paul, the ones who know me best. Use me well, for I did love you.’
Leto closed his eyes. Such words always distressed him. He knew it was love to which he was most vulnerable.”

“‘Whatever my Lord commands.’
Leto stared down at the man. ‘We are myth-killers, you and I, Moneo. That’s the dream we share. I assure you from a God’s Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies.’
‘Thus you have taught me, Lord.’”