It could only be one thing, Jessica knew, the fabled crysknife of Arrakis, the blade that had never been taken off the planet, and was known only by rumor and wild gossip. "My husband told me of your title, Shadout," Jessica said. Inline frames, usually just called iframes, are the only type of frame allowed in HTML5. It was double-edged like a kindjal and the blade was perhaps twenty centimeters long. Inline frames include content from external sources on your pages. The blade seemed to shine and glitter with a light of its own. She took sheath in one hand and handle in the other, withdrew a milk-white blade, held it up. A black handle with deep finger ridges protruded from it. Slowly, Mapes reached into the neck of her dress, brought out a dark sheath. There are worse things than dying, you know - even for an entire people." "There's a remote possibility you could draw my life's blood," Jessica said, "but in so doing you'd bring down more ruin than your wildest fears could imagine. "You know the ancient tongues then?" Mapes asked, and she waited with an odd intensity. "I heard it several times as we drove through the streets this morning." "I know that you have borne children, that you have lost loved ones, that you have hidden in fear and that you have done violence and will yet do more violence. "The weapon was sent as a gift to you should you prove to be the One." Mapes took a backward step, appeared poised to flee. I know you came prepared for violence with a weapon in your bodice." "You speak of the legend and seek answers," Jessica said. Now we see which way the decision tips, she thought. "Andral t're pera Trada cik buscakri miseces perakri -"
"Miseces prejia," she said in the Chakobsa tongue.
She read the more obvious signs in Mapes' actions and appearance, the petit betrayals. "I know the Dark Things and the ways of the Great Mother," Jessica said. She waited in the seeming relaxation that made the Bene Gesserit-trained so terrifying in combat. "And as the means of my death should I prove otherwise," Jessica said.
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