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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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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.”
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Three months later, things are mostly back to normal.
And then there's an accident.
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05 Sep 2024
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He knows he could have called Maddie and she would have been there, though the memory of her disappointment last time stopped him. As for everyone else—even if he weren’t prohibited from talking to them by his lawyer, Buck doubts anyone would have come. The last time they talked was when they ran into each other in the grocery store a week back, and, since Buck is not eager for a repeat of that interaction, he doesn’t even consider calling anyone in to hold his hand for what is, he tells himself, probably just another little blip on his road back to the 118.
He is able to convince himself of this up until the moment Dr. Gutierrez walks into his room and says, “Well, Evan, you just can’t seem to do anything the easy way, can you?”
Because, as it turns out, there is a circumstance under which a tiny clot that doesn’t cause you to vomit blood in front of all of your friends and family is worse than three big ones that do: that circumstance is called ‘being on blood thinners.’
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In the midst of the lawsuit, Buck is diagnosed with cancer. Dropping the lawsuit is easy. Finding forgiveness, less so.Series
- Part 1 of Love is a Place
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28 Jun 2024
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He might be a child in age but he wasn’t one in the eyes of the Atreides - and even less, in those of the Bene Gesserit. His mother had created him for that purpose and, Paul was starting to think, with bitterness - for that purpose alone.
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19 Mar 2024
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Unquenchable Fire by Aravis
Fandoms: Dune - All Media Types, Dune (2021), Dune Series - Frank Herbert
02 Apr 2024
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The Emperor offers a rare prize to the Great Houses:
a chance to hunt & claim the first living male omega in Imperium history.≽ ⨳ ≼
Paul's dynamic changes everything.
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16 Mar 2024