[Cold, imperious, soft. A manner of speaking perfected by millennia of calculated violence, each word a whetstone on which a threat is sharpened. There are Voices, and there are voices, and Paul had let both lie unused so long here.]
House Atreides seeks a reckoning for the murder of Falco Grice.
These coordinates at dusk. Duelists' choice of weapons.
[His pitch slants, and his tongue is barbed with dire promise.]
[this is something that she should have long foreseen. after her conversation with midoriya, it seemed inevitable. whatever kind of retribution, whatever Reckoning that paul atreides seeks in falco's name, she is ready to pay it.]
[she is terrified of it. she knows what paul is capable of, and she does not trust him to listen to her threat—but she scarcely trusts herself to follow up on it, now. she rasps out his name like opening a tomb and continues in something that sounds deeper, rougher, but not malicious at all. she inhales, and her lungs crackle.]
I'll be there.
[her own weapon is still there, is it not? that's convenient.]
2022.07.17 | voice [2/2]
[Cold, imperious, soft. A manner of speaking perfected by millennia of calculated violence, each word a whetstone on which a threat is sharpened. There are Voices, and there are voices, and Paul had let both lie unused so long here.]
House Atreides seeks a reckoning for the murder of Falco Grice.
These coordinates at dusk. Duelists' choice of weapons.
[His pitch slants, and his tongue is barbed with dire promise.]
Don't make me have to find you, Anna.
voice
[this is something that she should have long foreseen. after her conversation with midoriya, it seemed inevitable. whatever kind of retribution, whatever Reckoning that paul atreides seeks in falco's name, she is ready to pay it.]
[she is terrified of it. she knows what paul is capable of, and she does not trust him to listen to her threat—but she scarcely trusts herself to follow up on it, now. she rasps out his name like opening a tomb and continues in something that sounds deeper, rougher, but not malicious at all. she inhales, and her lungs crackle.]
I'll be there.
[her own weapon is still there, is it not? that's convenient.]