house atreides and allies group text

[terriblepurpose]

House Atreides


Allies


Shed? Heresy Hut


Questionable Mentor Containment Zone (Filter Name: HashbrownCobraKaiRules)

Use the filter name to INCLUDE the above without excluding other characters. (Snakes don't close their eyes even to sleep.)

Comments

[terriblepurpose]

[A scratchy, wavering half-inhale. A pause.]

So am I.

[peripheries]

[Well, now he feels a little guilty.]

You don't always have to be. Even though you think you do.

[Suddenly. An intrusive thought.]

I haven't done a good job guarding you.

[terriblepurpose]

[Guilt isn't Paul's intent. When he presses the Omni to his brow to feel its fleeting coolness, all he's after is connection.

But that's the cost of being as overworn as he is. He isn't keeping himself tempered.]

This isn't your fault. What were you supposed to have done?

[peripheries]

Not burned.

Stayed close.

[Connection is all he wants too. And he feels guilt that they are not close right now. That they would have stayed close if his body had not failed him.]

[terriblepurpose]

Don't do that.

Don't take responsibility for things you couldn't help.

I don't know what to say when you talk like that, or what I'm supposed to do.

[peripheries]

I don't know either. I just wanted to say it.

[terriblepurpose]

...I know.

It's hard. I wish I knew how to make it easier without being there.

When I come home, I'm not letting you go for a week.

[peripheries]

What if I find you first?

[terriblepurpose]

Won't make a difference. Your fate is sealed.