“Will I ever see Rakis?” he asked Geasa. “You are being prepared to live there.” The answer astonished him. Everything they taught him about that faraway planet came into new focus. “Why will I live there?” “I cannot answer that.” With renewed interest, he returned to his studies of that mysterious planet and its miserable Church of Shai-hulud, the Divided God. Worms. The God Emperor had become those worms! The idea filled Duncan with awe. Perhaps here was something worthy of worship. The thought touched a chord in him. What had driven a man to accept that terrible metamorphosis?
