- S... | Transfixed - Destiny Mira- Valeria Atreides

She could kill the last Atreides. Absorb her power. Become the new anchor of fate and rot alone in this beautiful tomb for millennia.

"The Bene Gesserit lied to you, child. As they lie to everyone. You are not a weapon without a war. You are the war's end . I have seen it—frozen here in this moment for three millennia, watching every possible thread of fate. In ninety-three percent of futures, you kill me and take my prescience. In six percent, you join me in eternal transfixion. But there is one future—one only—where you walk away."

She reached out. Her fingers were cool as river stones against Destiny's cheek. Transfixed - Destiny Mira- Valeria Atreides - S...

Or she could step back. Let the Sisterhood hunt her as a failure. Let the empire crumble without her intervention. Let the future remain uncertain.

Valeria rose from the throne. She was taller than any hologram had suggested, and when she stepped onto the black water, she did not sink. She walked across it as if it were glass. She could kill the last Atreides

Destiny Mira looked into Valeria Atreides' endless eyes and saw her own reflection—not as she was, but as she could be .

Valeria smiled. It was the saddest expression Destiny had ever seen. "The Bene Gesserit lied to you, child

It rose from a pool of still, black water at the cavern's heart—a sculpture of fused obsidian and bone, organic and cruel. And on it sat a woman who could not possibly be alive.