Chapterhouse: Dune

Content Warning: This section contains discussions of addiction and a description of a scene depicting child sexual abuse.

Murbella wakes late in the night suffering from a nightmare. Duncan comforts her. Though they are being watched, they talk. She talks about how Miles Teg sees Duncan as a father, as well as being the Bashar Teg, a military genius with the ability to avoid bloodshed. Murbella reveals that the Bene Gesserit want her to sexually imprint Scytale for them. She then tells Duncan about her early life when the Honored Matres recruited her during a sweep.

They raised her to be an enticer, who imprinted important men for the Honored Matres to control. If the Bene Gesserit want her to do the same, her price will be steep. Part of her price is Duncan. They talk about Duncan’s plan to sue Sheeana to restore Miles’s like Murbella did to Duncan.

Odrade argued for two months to gain approval of Sheeana as a successor to Tam. Duncan’s suggestion that the Scattering was a futile strategy has damaged morale. Duncan and Murbella’s next child will be born within eight days.