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Cole tugs at the sleeves under his jacket, straightening them. Then takes the few steps down the stairs and into the bar. He pulls a barstool and sits at the bar. His usual appears before he speaks.

"You read my mind." He smiles and rubs the bar.

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I come because I want to. Why do you come, Cole Turner?

He laughs. "Well, for a while, I really didn't have a choice. One of those unlucky ones to be Bound. Got attatched here, which is why I keep coming back."

And you like it?

Yes, you do. It is the right path for you.

That one catches him offguard.

"I.. uh.. I've found it to be so, yes. Though I have the feeling you mean in the future. Why do I get that feeling?"

*She looks up at him. Except for the strange eyes, it is the face of a particularly lovely fifteen year old*

Do not you know your own mind? You like it here. It will prove fruitful to you.

"No, I like it here. No contention there."

He takes a sip of his drink. "How about you. You like it here?"

It is good. Different, but good. It is off my path.

Muad'dib would say that we must walk the path we are given, but, my brother does not see all the alternatives.

Cole chuckles. "Well, I've always been a fan of thinking that I'm making my own path."

You see, but you do not see. Your path is your path. You do not see what lies ahead, you walk until you get there.

"And do you see? What lies ahead?"

It comes and goes. I know the things that I know because of who I am...

*She trails off, gazing over his shoulder*

"And who would that be, Alia?"

Myself. I am Alia. The Witch Queen. The Saint. Pre-born and never a child, knowing all and knowing nothing.

Cole stares for a second. "Witch and Saint? Interesting combination."

I am as the people would have me. I was born Atreides and Bene Gesserit.

He takes another drink. "And what would that entail?"

My father was Duke Leto Atreides. The Emperor gave him Arrakis. My mother was Jessica, trained by the Bene Gesserit to produce the heir the Bene Gesserit wanted from him.

Instead she had my brother, Paul, and then me. Paul would be the next Atreides Duke.

And I was born a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother.

"So... these are family names?"

House Atreides is one of the oldest families in the galaxy.

The Bene Gesserit are a religious order.

"So then, you would be the head of this religious order now?"

There are many Bene Gesserit Reverend Mothers. The head of the order is Mother Mohim.

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