The Emperor Paul Muad’dib on his ascension to the Lion Throne
“The sharply silver light of noon poured through clerestory windows on to the floor worked in green, blue, and eggshell tiles to simulate a bayou with water plants and here and there, a splash of exotic color to indicate a bird or animal.
Guildsmen moved across the tile pattern like hunters stalking their prey in a strange jungle. They formed a moving design of grey robes, black robes, and orange robes all arrayed in a deceptively random way around the transparent tank where the Steersmen-Ambassador swan in his orange gas. The tank slid on its supporting field, towed by two grey robbed attendants, like a rectangular ship being warped into its dock.”
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
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