Pages 82-126 Summary

Leto holds his first interview with Idaho in the darkened crypt, wanting the ghola to hear him before seeing the disconcerting body. Breaking in new gholas is a boring ordeal that Leto endures for the pleasure of Muad'Dib-within. Standard practice is for houris to gentle the ghola and answer select questions. Leto begins by determining that the Tleilaxu have reawakened pre-death memories properly and then sooths Idaho's hysteria. He admits his body has changed but he remains Atreides. He is pleased to enjoy Idaho's company again. In his own voice, Leto talks about his 3,500-year transformation but leaves it to Idaho to look up previous versions of himself. Leto returns to Muad'Dib's voice to comfort Idaho as he remembers his first death, and waits patiently for him to be satisfied with "tamed history." Leto then describes his ultimate fate to return...