· CALL ME OUT (AUTUMN) ·

[hobbitholmes]

🎃 AUTUMN

it's a highway
highway to the dark
and a neon medusa
has got YOUR HEART

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[scavenged]

( Paul isn't the only one plagued with vivid dreams, Rey — or Kira* as she is known by the other members of the Sietch Tabr — has her own dreams that often leave her sleepless and wandering the sietch endlessly. Today is no different; she woke unable to breathe as if the heated desert sands threatened to burn her from the inside out. The sounds of her parents being slaughtered in the distance, their blood spilling onto the sands as she was left to wander the desert as it seemed the Harkonnen men tasked with killing her family couldn't stomach killing a child and left her for the desert to claim her.

Unable to keep and no longer wanting to wander the sietch aimlessly, Rey leaves — finding the perch outside that she enjoys, nestled in an outcropping of stone that offers cool shade even when the sun was at its hottest. By the time Paul arrives — or Usul as Silgar has named him — Rey has been here for hours, watching the spice dance across the sands, glittering as the sun began peeking over the horizon.

She looks down at him; head cocked to the side curiously. While she doesn't remember much of her parents or her childhood, Rey knows she — like Paul and his mother — is an Outworlder, but unlike them, she has been hardened and shaped by the desert, her eyes the piercing blue-within-blue shared by all those who have the Eyes of Ibad. )

It is dangerous to be out at this hour without a Stillsuit. You should head back inside where it is —

( Her voice trails off as her head turns back to the sky, her eyes following a meteorite streaking through the sky, soon followed by another and then another. )

[spicetrance]

( Paul approaches her quietly in regard as she stares out into the sun. She doesn't look like the other Freman. Perhaps she was someone pulled into the believes like Liet Kynes had been. Perhaps it was her parents, and she merely the sum of their adopted religion. Regardless, he finally comes to stand beside her with his eyes looking out forward onto the sand. )

I'll be fine for now. ( His gaze follows her to the sky. ) A meteor shower. Do you see them often here in the deep desert?

[scavenged]

( Hearing Paul approach, Rey's head tips slightly towards the noise before shifting from where she sits to offer him some shade beside her. )

Several times a year, many of them happen around the same time, though some are newer and older ones have stopped happening. They are dependent upon our position around Canopus.

Sometimes, we can find the meteors before the worms get to them if we're lucky, but they're often devoured shortly after impact. If the sun weren't already rising, I might have ventured into the desert after one that landed not too far off from here.

[spicetrance]

I see. ( He nods to her information and once again looks northwards. ) Do you make anything from the fallen meteors? Or, is everything only taken from raids on Harkkonen facilities or the sandworms?

( He gently takes his spot to sit beside her. It feels odd to speak to people he has seen in dreams or visions. They're real, but sometimes, he feels as himself isn't real. What is real and not is clear to him and he has no issue distinguishing one from the other. It is the feeling of being in dreams that sometimes disturbs him. )

[scavenged]

We use all of the resources we find, but we don't use them often as the meteors are rarer to find due to the sand and worms. That said, much of what we use comes from off-world and the worms.

( Raising a hand to her chest, Rey carefully shifts through the loose fabrics she wears to produce a necklace. With a deft hand, she pulls it over her hand and hands it to Paul once he's sitting beside her. )

I kept a small piece of the last one I found.

rolls here 80 years later!!!

[spicetrance]

Hm.

( Paul takes the quiet moment to watch how she takes her necklace. His head tilts as she hands it to him to look at. His gloved hands move over the details of it, noting it is sharp, and could potentially break a still suit. However, he doubts that is what she wants to hear. )

Do you dream of going offworld?