She patted the girl's soft brown hair. She had focused on the idea of the similarities between Avatar and Kwisatz Haderach too. A more conservative Reverend Mother would have advised killing him, 'just to be safe'. But Sheeana remembered Paul Atreides' own words: The safe path leads ever downward to stagnation! This 'Avatar' would have to be evaluated on his own terms.

"Because we were fools. All we could focus on was the things the Kwisatz Haderach could show us. We were so obsessed with the knowledge we could gain from him, we didn't bother to ask ourselves what would be the consequences of bringing such a being into existence."