Thread: Student of Dune (DarkAngel & Sync)

The winds kept picking up around them as they pulled the Fremkit and tent from the thopter. Tal grabbed the stilltent leaving Helene with the smaller, lighter Fremkit and dragged it around the crashed thopter, putting them somewhat in the small crafts windshadow. Weve got maybe five minutes before the winds will be too strong to let us get this up, Tal called out, not quite shouting to make himself heard. This is only going to be a small storm, but the sand it carries will still rip the flesh from your bones if we dont get in cover. As he spoke he was working quickly on unpacking the tent quickly, but not hurriedly. Working hurriedly would be as bad as not putting the tent up. Quickly as they could, the tent was up it was more solid than it first looked, and being anchored against the thopter gave it additional strength. The tents were only made for two people Talgar knew it was going to be a snug fit for the pair of them. The winds were getting stronger around them as the two people strangers, really worked to get the tent up and secured. Gusts and bursts drove sand around them, stinging what skin was exposed, whipping cloaks around them into a flapping frenzy. The thopters weight was their only chance of not losing the tent, and it was a race between the weight of the sand and the strength of the wind as to whether the thopter would remain in place to keep their tent secure. Eventually the tent was up, secured as best they could, and Tal was pushing Helene inside, then stepping in behind her and sealing the tent from the inside. As long as the thopter holds in place, we should be okay, he advised loudly, still having to raise his voice to be heard over the wind and hissing sands as he pulled his face flap away and drank from the catch-pockets in his suit. Well have to sit here until the storm blows itself out, or moves on. It should only be an hour or two. But Im not continuing our journey until night. While were on foot, we move by night and rest by day. Then his voice took on a slightly-harder edge to it. The changes your uncle is making to the planet are slowly taking some of the heat from the day cycle, but its not cooled enough that you can spend a long time outside and not suffer. It was only then that he settled and sat down properly, his legs crossed in front of him. His blue-in-blue eyes gazed impassively at her, almost as if he was looking at a rock he hadnt seen before. This would be a good time to review what you may or may not knowso I know how much learning you have to take inside that water-filled off-world head of yours. Youre not blind, Faradn replied quickly. He suspected she was referring to the prescience Leto had, but he chose not to refer to it. He didnt understand it, anyway. You couldnt have known how far our enemies would go toto hurt us. He took that final step that closed the distance between them, then gently reached out and slipped his arms around her, pulling her into a tight embrace, easing her head onto his chest. Hed wanted to do this for a while, for so many yearsbut she hadnt let him. Lying in bed with hershed just been doing her duty, hadnt allowed herself or him to become close. That was how he felt it. Maybe she was slowly changing, but he wasnt going to be pushy about it. If she was going to open up to him, it would be in her own way and time. Youve always tried for our children, Ghani, he told her quietly. Youve always been there for them. They know this. So do I.