"Its a pleasure to meet you both" Amy McIntosh extended a hand, "This is Duchess Louise, she represents House Harkonnen one of the most important families within the Bene Gesserit faith, and herself at one time quiet the scholar."
"I keep my hand in when I can" Louise said extended her hand. "Cantabria is the second most significant Chapterhouse of our faith. The Chapterhouses are also refered to as Lifeboats, the original Chapterhouse is located on a tiny island just a few miles off the coast of Kaitaine, but since the communist take over no Bene Gesserit has set foot there. When our faithful determined we'd protect our faith they sent the Four Holy Houses, ourselves, the Atreides, the Corrino's and the Fremen into exile and we got to come to lovely Cantarbia" by now they'd reached a series of cars which would take them to the school.
Huadixue was ushered into the lead vehicle alongside the Duchess and Amy. A smartly suited woman took the drivers seat while an almost identically dressed. "The ladies in the front are Truthsayers, one of the other branches of the Sisterhood, they are our paramilitary and provide security advice for the Holy Houses and schools. The car left the airport and headed down a series of leafy lanes. The school was more like a small village a series of houses where the staff lived, there was then what looked like an old medieval wall surrounding the actual school buildings, a series of old fashioned looking buildings modelled on old Christian monastries. Around the other edge was a series of more modern buildings science labs and sports facilities. Students were walking back and forth between the buildings, those students aged under 14 dressed in smart grey blazers and skirts, those older wearing uniforms similar to that they would be joining once they turned 18. The cars entered through an old fashioned looking gateway and stopped in front of one of the buildings where a series of girls mainly dressed in blue tunics with white piping were coming and going, each clutching a pile of books. "This is our Grand Library here, we have smaller subject specific ones in each of the areas of the school but here is where we keep the good stuff." Louise explained, several of the girls had noticed her and nodded respectfully as they walked past. A young student was on her way out as the party approached, she stopped and held the door open allowing them to enter the main chamber of the
Grand Library "This is the 2nd largest of the Grand Libraries, we managed to get much of our knowledge from the original Chapterhouse smuggled out before the fall, the largest one is in Claith and posses some 50million items ranging from a single side of paper articles to heavyweight encylcopedias, documents from all continents on Mundus"
Amy had been here countless times, she'd spent literally years sat at the desks now filled with students scribbling away with piles of books next to them almost all wearing the blue Missionara jacket. "We have some private study rooms downstairs." Amy lead the way towards a small spiral staircase at the bottom was a series of glass cubicles, older women wearing the blue jackets were busy at work on laptops.
"Hi Auntie Amy" a cheery voice came from one of the open doors, "Oh, didn't realise we had company" she said with a surprise. Amy crossed and hugged the woman in her late thirties by the look of it.
"This is my neice Neamh, she's one of our Missionara and she's currently working on?" Amy asked.
"I'm compiling some family histories of people they are thinking of marrying into the Fremen family." she said proudly it was a highly significant job for a Missionara and could determine the future of the Holy Houses.
"Well good luck with that" Amy said, "I'll check on you later." the pair parted and the group made their way to the far end where a large conference room was located. Everyone was shown a seat and then Louise began talking.
"From what we know you essentially are a government run organisation that serves the same purpose as ourselves, except we've had a 800 year head start. This means we've got quiet a lot to offer, around 200million articiles of knowledge and raising, take Amy's neice Neamh, by the end of today she'll have made that number 200,000,001. There is probably no organisation on Mundus so prolific in producing new learning. We are always delighted to share with interested parties but we've never done it on such a large scale. We've never had an outside organisation working inside a Chapterhouse so we have a few questions. First, what do you intend to use all this information for? We'd also like to know how you are connected to your nations government, are you part of a Ministry, the military, a seperate organisation? We'd just like to know who we are dealing with."
