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  1. Rec 19

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    After the untimely death of Duke Leto, Jessica and her children are forced to move into Baron Harkonnen's manor house in the Scottish Highlands where they meet his two strange wards.

    (Gothic 1960s bildungsroman)

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    Paul can feel himself hyperventilating, mind spinning from the sheer implications of everything he has just heard.

     

    “The Reverent Mother instructed me explicitly. We were to let him touch you. It was a curious sight, the way he held you, almost despite himself…so incongruously gentle for such a brutal creature.” She nearly smiles and Paul shakes with the sudden urge to snarl in her face. “Your fever broke. You settled calm for the first time in weeks.”

     

    “This is a lie-“

     

    “You are connected now. A change has been triggered in you and in the Na-Baron Harkonnen as well. The Reverent Mother says it is in your blood. There is no cure for it.”

    The threads the Bene Gesserit weave are intricate and ever enduring, schemes within schemes, contingencies within contingencies.

    Jessica gives birth to a son instead of a daughter despite explicitly given orders. It should have altered the path forced upon her, the sacrifice that was to be made of her child in the hands of a brutal and violent house. Instead her choice triggers a dormant Bene Gesserit gene engineering not witnessed for millennia.

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    01 Dec 2024

  3. Rec 32

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    Paul thought it convenient that his parents wouldn’t house him at their new place. Sure, Feyd isn’t allowed to travel out of the country, and he’s not on the best terms with Leto anyways, but maybe some rehabilitation in Greece would get him acting like a normal person after his prison sentence. But as it stands, according to the Atreides’ stupid ethical codex, it’s now Paul’s responsibility to let his brutish cousin crash on his couch for a few weeks.

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    Paul froze. His lips paralysed against Feyd’s and the cold kiss of steel at his jugular.

    "How fitting." He thought to himself, strangely distant from the events that were currently unfolding, "That I should end my first kiss with a knife to my throat."

    “I did warn you.” Feyd breathed into his ear. It made every hair on Paul’s body stand on end. “Anything could happen.”

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    After Paul takes the Water of Life he can see the future of every person in the universe except for one - Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. So when every path that he can see leads to billions of deaths, he takes the only one that he can't. In order to kill Muad'Dib, Paul offers himself up to his worst enemy.

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    Duncan reaches up to cup Paul’s face; he brushes a thumb over Paul’s cheek. He tilts Paul’s face this way and that.

    “You look like you never sleep.”

    Paul can barely breathe. He doesn’t know what to say. He hasn't slept, not well, anyway. He wakes up early or in fits in the night, and he can never escape those strange dreams. They’re getting harder to shake during the day.

    Duncan’s hand drops away.

    “You can stay with me,” Duncan offers. “Anytime you need. Tonight, if you want. If it will help you sleep.”

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    Paul has trouble sleeping. More accurately, he has trouble with his dreams. Duncan Idaho notices something off with his boy, and he offers Paul a place to stay. Paul only has to take him up on it.

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