The gaunt man fixed her with his gaze and nodded as his thinning hair fluttered in the ever-present wind of the mountainside.<br/><br/>"I am his father," he answered softly.  "I was much like him when I claimed one of your sisters just as he has captured you.  And just as I trained my pretty pet, he will break you as well chosen of Diune.  And then you will be his until the day his own child is old enough to do the same."<br/><br/>Then he fell silent and simply let his eyes drift slowly over her.