Part I
An assortment of prompts taken from the movie Dune: Part One (2021).
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β Dreams are messages from the deep. β
β Their cruelty to my people is all I've known. β
β Who will our next oppressors be? β
β It's good you're up early. β
β Why do we have to go through all of this when it's already decided? β
β If you want it, make me give it to you. β
β There is no call we do not answer, there is no faith we betray. β
β I'd like you to take me with you. β
β Can I trust you with something? β
β It felt like if I had been there, you'd be alive. β
β You're not taking me seriously. β
β Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when you're awake because that's when we make everything happen. β
β I've been training my whole life. What is the point if I can't face an actual risk? β
β I need you by my side. β
β I told my father I didn't want this either. β
β A great man doesn't seek to lead. He's called to it, and he answers. β
β I found my own way to it. Maybe you'll find yours. β
β Don't stand with your back to the door. β
β The slow blade penetrates the shield. β
β You fight when the necessity arises, no matter the mood. β
β I see you found the mood. β
β You don't understand the grave nature of what's happening to us. β
β Don't be too sure it's an act of love. β
β When if a gift not a gift? β
β Defiance in the eyes. Like his father. β
β An animal caught in a trap will gnaw off its own leg to escape. What will you do? β
β I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings obliteration. I'll face my fear and I'll permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn to the inner eye and see its path. And where the fear is gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain. β
β If you had been unable to control your impulses, like an animal, we could not let you live. β
β You inherit too much power. β
β Do you often dream things that happen just as you dreamed them? β
β Did you have to go that far? β
β Do you see so little hope? β
β How does it feel to walk on a new world? β
β Don't be fooled by the welcome. β
β Let's get you out of the sun. The heat can kill in this place. β
β They see what they've been told to see. β
β If you mean to harm me, I must warn you that whatever you're hiding, it won't be enough. β
β When you have lived with a prophecy this long, the moment of revelation is a shock. β
β Sire, I failed you today. There's no excuse. β
β It must never be known. β
β Thanks for the humiliation, old man. β
β I have never come so close to dying. β
β I respect the personal dignity of anyone that respects mine. β
β I believe your people and mine have much to offer one another. β
β Name what you want. If it's in my power to grant, I'll give it and ask for nothing. β
β Honor requires that I be elsewhere. β
β You have good eyes. β
β If we take one step out there, we're as good as dead. β
β I recognize your footsteps, old man. β
β Everything they left us is in shambles. We've been set up to fail. β
β I had a vision. My eyes were wide open. β
β You can't know that. I barely know that. β
β I trusted you completely. Even when you walked in shadows. β
β Why are you having these thoughts? This is not you. β
β I thought we'd have more time. β
β Why don't we just cut their throats? β
β Don't! You are not ready. β
β For hundreds of years, we've run blood for blood. But no more. β
β Here I am. Here I remain. β
β I am commanded to say nothing. To see nothing. β
β Tell me, please. What do you fear? β
β Somebody help me, please. β
β You know who you are. β
