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    "Are you going for the course?" Lovegood asked. "You have the NEWTs.”

    “What course?” Draco said, then, “No, don’t be ridiculous,” when he realized she meant the notice pinned up on the board he’d been staring at: Applicants To The Introductory Mediwizard Course For The Coming Term Shall Present Themselves In The Chief Mediwizard’s Office By August 24th.

    “Oh, I thought you might,” she said. “Well, goodbye.” And off she wandered again in her addled way.

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    She is sixteen when his buyer comes to visit her on Wallach IX, a trip that requires an Imperial spaceship to travel five parsecs, thirteen decagrams of spice, for a total of over one hundred thousand solaris, round trip. All to purchase a Bene Gesserit concubine for the twentieth Duke of the Great House of Atreides, one that the sisters are offering without any monetary price. A gift, they claim, but all know the truth. This is a transactional exchange, a concubine given for the express purposes of ensuring a future daughter of a Great House, another sister secured into the Bene Gesserit fold.

    Sex, for procreation.

    It is the oldest transaction of time, and Jessica is about to become another member of the oldest profession.

    ... if only things had gone according to this simple plan.

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    People, it turns out, are horny for depression. Or maybe it’s that people are horny for depressed gods. Or maybe enduring betrayal on a literally cosmic scale makes people hotter. Or maybe the death drive is real, and the many-tongued abyss’s breath is still thick in your hair, and it makes everyone want to move closer and take a big, deep whiff. Or maybe you’re God, and they’re scared.

    Or: John Gaius meets his daughter, remembers the women he left behind, and deals poorly with being the male god of a universe in which the divine is essentially feminine.

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    After the saltwater pool, they talk about nothing and everything, and Gideon learns one last, terrible secret.

    “The option of destruction had been your constant companion since you were three years old.” – Harrow the Ninth, Chapter 6

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    After weeks of seeing Wake's, Scratch shows his.

    Chapter 2: Wake decides he wants to see it again, and lays a trap.

    Chapter 3: Alan Wake 2 spoilers, kinda. Wake is subjected to the consequences of his actions.

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    20 Dec 2023