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I succumbed to the lure of the oracle by MeistreAytnic for EnduringParadox, khthonicEcho
Fandoms: Dune - All Media Types, Dune Series - Frank Herbert, Dune (Movies - Villeneuve), Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003), Frank Herbert's Dune (2000), Dune: Prophecy (TV)
07 Jun 2026
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“I succumbed to the lure of the oracle, he thought.
And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune MessiahTen years after losing Paul Atreides to Giedi Prime, Duke Leto accepts the invitation he never expected to receive: to attend the Hraknir of the children of Paul and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen.
He expected to find a prison. A hostage. Perhaps a broken son, perhaps a forced consort, perhaps children raised by the enemy and still young enough to be saved in some way.
But Giedi Prime is not merely a prison. Paul is not merely a hostage. Feyd-Rautha is not merely the monster Caladan remembers. And their children are not merely Harkonnen children dressed for a barbaric rite.
Among artificial gardens, blood rites, games of power, Meishu protocols, five complete Kwisatz Haderachs, and a family too impossible to reduce to scandal, the Atreides discover that ten years preserve no one intact.
Paul lived.
Feyd built a house around him.