Summary: Dune Messiah AU. After a twist in events, Irulan is wed to both Paul and Feyd, bringing Chani in has been another added layer of issues. After a fight between Feyd and Chani breaks out, Irulan goes in search of where Feyd is sulking.
OOC Notes: This thread takes place in the Polycule Throne AU ( Want Ad Link ). It occurs in the timeline after the conclusion of My Word Above All.
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Feyd-Rautha, now Baron of House Harkonnen, stood in a place unfamiliar to him. Not because he had never been in the room itself before, but because he had so rarely been in its kind before.
It was a study. A library, in truth, arrayed with cases of books, a writing desk, several comfortable seats, and stone table. His uncle… May his wretchedness rest in piece... Feyd thought… had held many a meeting in one study or another, but Feyd had never used them himself. As a youth, there had been those who had tried to teach him. To conform him to one noble softness or another. To curb his violent proclivities which, even now, he felt clawing at the edge of his desires, demanding release.
And so, rather than flip tables and crush chairs, Feyd breathed, considering the room with which he was so unfamiliar. The Arrakeen Palace had not been the headquarters of House Harkonnen during its initial decades of rule over the fief of Arrakis in the first place. In fact, it had been the home of the Count and Lady Fenring as Imperial representatives. Planetologist Liet Kynes who had met their unfortunate end in the deserts that she had studied with such fervor, also worked out of this vast building. The Harkonnens had made Carthag their capital… But Baron Vladimir and Rabban had used Arrakeen after their re-invasion of the planet. Always with their eyes on the Atreides… Drawn like fish to a lure of envy and hate. The hook bites, uncle. Brother.
So this study had been that of Count Fenring. Anything of the Count’s, or his Ladyship’s, had surely been removed from the room upon their departure during the Atreides’ ill-fated assumption of rule. Still… This was the space of that most deadly man, notorious assassin and reportedly the only friend of the now-dead Emperor. The man for whom Feyd himself had fought under Kanly…
He did not turn as the door opened, leaving his back to it. He trained his ears to hear who the entrant might be…
