"Thank you," she murmured and let herself float where he had put her. "I remember the day Sister Kalim told me it was the day I was born. She said I was to walk for as long as I could at the beginning of the evening and when I had walked thusly, I found a meal in a pack waiting for me on a rock. Of course, I did not go back that evening, nor the next. I think that was a test to see if I could find what had been set out for me. But it was a decent meal, one I made last for seven days, and I had time to reflect on my birth in the mean time. The woman was furious with me when I did show my face, but pleased that the desert had not eaten me. I was a good Fremen child, even if I did not know it then. I found water in the least likely places."
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