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    “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine; he feeds among the lilies.”
    Song of Songs 6:3

     

    Paul Atreides has spent the first six months of his marriage inside the Consort’s Wing, surrounded by Caladanian servants, soldiers, customs, meals, clothing, and loyalties, trying not to call the Harkonnen Citadel home.

    Then the lists arrive.

    Paul is beginning to understand that he cannot stay inside his wing pretending it is only a smaller, besieged Caladan.

    Meanwhile, Feyd-Rautha watches the Meishu, the Department of Arrangements, and the long-standing alpha/omega marriage of B and Orion with a hunger even he does not bother disguising. In them, he sees something Giedi Prime rarely offers without teeth: age, possession, tenderness, children, authority, and a future that has survived long enough to become domestic.

    Because among the lilies, Paul is not merely learning how Giedi Prime arranges marriages.

    He is learning what kind of house Feyd wants to build around them.

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