Siona is bored with the "Showing" ceremony that opens meetings. Nineteen disguised rebels meet in a storage chamber beneath Onn. Topri is good at inspiring new recruits, focusing attention on a plastic "crysknife" copied from a museum piece. Siona goes along with donning black gauze masks to greet a special visitor, Iyo Kobat, ex-Ambassador from Ix, who tells of his banishment following an attempt on Leto's life with an Ixian weapon. Leto wants him to tell Ix that he knows about joint research with the Guild and Sisterhood to bypass melange in navigation, and Siona threatens to tell these allies that Ix is cheating them. She is sure the Worm knows who the rebels are and where they meet, but disagrees with the Oral History's claim he is incapable of human emotions. Kobat.....
