Golden Rev. (06/12/20) 108.CHANI
Yes?Paul considers telling her about his visions... Paul looks at
Chani in the eyes. She is troubled. A strange intimate
silence between them.
PAUL
I... Never mind.Chani walks Paul to the circle. Paul steps into the circle,
weighing the strange knife in his hands. He tosses and
catches it a few times to get the feel.
JAMIS
May thy knife chip and shatter!Paul salutes with his knife in the chivalric manner. They
begin to circle one another.
JAMIS (CONT'D)
You should welcome my blade! This
world will kill you. Quicker this
way.He attacks immediately and repeatedly: swift brutal blows,
each one a killing stroke. He is utterly confident: taller,
stronger, contemptuous of this weak foreign boy.
But in Paul, Jamis has met a level of training the Fremen
have never seen. Paul evades and deflects every attack
without breaking a sweat, calm and steady. Each time his
counter-attack is exquisitely graceful, on-target...
...and slow. Timed as if Jamis wore a shield. Each time Jamis
jerks away in time to survive.
Swiftly it becomes plain that Jamis is badly overmatched. He
is tiring, covered with sweat, while Paul is unruffled.
He lunges -- and Paul meets his arm with the point of his
blade, dealing a nasty wound. Jamis leaps back with a snarl.
PAUL
Do you yield?A murmur of protest among the Fremen. Stilgar speaks up.
STILGAR
The boy doesn’t know our rule.
There can be no yielding under the
amtal rule. Death is the test of
it.Golden Rev. (06/12/20) 108.