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[terriblepurpose]

Who: Paul Atreides, open
What: Event catch-all
When: Month of December
Where: Archaic Archives, streets of Trench, the forest's edge, memories
Notes: Go ahead and contact me at terriblepurpose or by PM if you'd like to discuss any starters or suggest new ones! For tagging in your character's memories to Paul, feel free to start with whatever your preference is.

Content Warnings: Violence, body horror (lockjoint), death, religious extremism, extensive Dune spoilers, suicidal ideation, funerals, grief

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[lipochrome]

[ Gideon offers a shrug in return. Old people really do get freaked out over the smallest things. ]

You can thrash it out of us as soon as you catch us!

[ At the speed they're going at, there's no way he can. Gideon cuts the feed, and Paul dives, and there is nothing but speed and darkness and the scrape of wings against rock. There is no Tomb, no dead fathers or mothers, no sticks of dynamite, no one surviving when they weren't meant to. Gideon shouts, and laughs, and forgets herself. Later, after all this is said and done, she will hope that Paul was able to do the same.

Once they emerge from the mountain and Paul lands the 'thopter, they will find a strange, white creature with frozen antlers. Gideon doesn't know what to call the creature, but she knows what it means: it's time to go.

She turns back to Paul, one last time, and this time, there's a gentleness to her lopsided smile. ] Thanks for the ride. I'll see you around, yeah?

[ It's not really a question. Paul is already friends with Palamedes; there's no way he'll be able to avoid Gideon completely.

Then, because she's fairly certain that he needed the flight practice as much as she did, that whatever's going on in his head is a much deeper loss than simple homesickness: ] Take care of yourself.

[ Gideon won't make him talk about it -- that would be the hypocrisy of the myriad -- but it feels cruel to ignore it, to pretend it doesn't exist. So she leaves Paul with that little acknowledgement, and she follows the frozen creature home. ]