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Dune (2021) I never read the Dune books. What little I was able to absorb through osmosis sounded exceedingly strange but I knew that it was a science fantasy series told over several thick books. I never watched the David Lynch version. However, I started to hear really great things about this version and so I decided to watch it as soon as Halloween was over. The movie is very long at 155…

“They aren’t coming back”, he says, staring at the rope. His hands don’t miss a beat, like they work without him. “Not the same.”

“It doesn’t matter”, she answers, and watches him sling the next knot. “We take what’s left.”

“Maybe there is nothing left.”

Something inside her wants to scream, but her lungs do not comply. Instead, she laughs, rough and humourless. It hurts her throat.

Knot, undo, redo, knot.

Again.

The rope slips from his fingers. She catches it before it touches the floor.

That’s when he looks up. There’s not much left of the sea in his eyes.

“We are still here”, she murmurs, unthinking, and hands him the rope back. He keeps it still in his hands, looking at her, like he’s searching her face for something familiar.

“I dream of Annie”, he says, “But I forget what she looks like.”

She nods. She takes the rope from his hands

He pulls her in, and kisses her, hard, and she can taste salt and sugar on his lips. They don’t talk as she pushes him back, as she gets out of her overall, as she sinks down on top of him. He is silent as he comes, but his eyes have more of the sea in them, just then, and she drowns.

“I dream of Peeta”, she says, as she lies on top of him, breathing.

He threads his hands through her hair.

She doesn’t need to say that she forgets, too.