Re: Chapter 17
Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:38
"There is no escape--we pay for the violence of our ancestors. "
-from "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
Lady Jessica is awakened at 2:00 in the morning by shouting coming from the great hall. She runs to the hall to find a couple of house guards holding up a drunken Duncan Idaho as Mapes looks on. They brought him in from outside where he was making a scene. Jessica sends Mapes for coffee. Yueh shows up and offers to take care of him. Duncan refuses the coffee and Jessica slaps him in the face, Idaho responds by accusing her of being a Harkonnen spy. Everything then falls into place for Jessica and she must use here Bene Gesserit tricks to remain calm. She throws the coffee in Idaho's faces and tells them to lock him in a spare room and let him sleep it off. She orders Hawat brought to her then returns to her rooms and slams the door. There she prepares herself for Hawat. He enters and she begins to question him and determines right away that he is not a spy. Jessica contemplates telling him that she's pregnant with the Duke's daughter but decides against it. They talk about who the traitor could be and why the men are getting drunk on spice beer. Jessica asks why he doesn't make use of her Bene Gesserit abilities, Hawat says he knows something of them, he can see her training in Paul. He says he doesn't trust her Bene Gesserit motives. She boasts that if she'd wanted the Duke dead he couldn't stop her. She shocks him by suggesting that the Harkonnens are attempting to sow distrust in him, to which he jumps out of his chair. Jessica uses Voice on him to keep him seated, and Hawat is astonished at her level of control over him, she could have killed him. The implications of the power of Voice staggers him. She orders him to repeat nothing of this and to get to the bottom of the baseles suspicion of her. Jessica dismisses him, he thinks of the Old Duke. Now he is the mattador and Lady Jessica the bull. He knew no matter what, he would neverforget this moment or lose admiration for Lady Jessica. Jessica thinks that now she will see some action.
-from "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
Lady Jessica is awakened at 2:00 in the morning by shouting coming from the great hall. She runs to the hall to find a couple of house guards holding up a drunken Duncan Idaho as Mapes looks on. They brought him in from outside where he was making a scene. Jessica sends Mapes for coffee. Yueh shows up and offers to take care of him. Duncan refuses the coffee and Jessica slaps him in the face, Idaho responds by accusing her of being a Harkonnen spy. Everything then falls into place for Jessica and she must use here Bene Gesserit tricks to remain calm. She throws the coffee in Idaho's faces and tells them to lock him in a spare room and let him sleep it off. She orders Hawat brought to her then returns to her rooms and slams the door. There she prepares herself for Hawat. He enters and she begins to question him and determines right away that he is not a spy. Jessica contemplates telling him that she's pregnant with the Duke's daughter but decides against it. They talk about who the traitor could be and why the men are getting drunk on spice beer. Jessica asks why he doesn't make use of her Bene Gesserit abilities, Hawat says he knows something of them, he can see her training in Paul. He says he doesn't trust her Bene Gesserit motives. She boasts that if she'd wanted the Duke dead he couldn't stop her. She shocks him by suggesting that the Harkonnens are attempting to sow distrust in him, to which he jumps out of his chair. Jessica uses Voice on him to keep him seated, and Hawat is astonished at her level of control over him, she could have killed him. The implications of the power of Voice staggers him. She orders him to repeat nothing of this and to get to the bottom of the baseles suspicion of her. Jessica dismisses him, he thinks of the Old Duke. Now he is the mattador and Lady Jessica the bull. He knew no matter what, he would neverforget this moment or lose admiration for Lady Jessica. Jessica thinks that now she will see some action.