y/nās steps echoed softly on the plush carpet of Elvis' bedroom as she ventured further into the opulent space. It was a stark contrast to the room she remembered from their time in Germany, with its lavish furnishings and thick velvet curtains that framed the windows.
your name was never part of the plan. you had always been the quiet shadow behind the heir, instructed, molded, prepared to be useful, but never necessary. but your sister, irulan, had a rare talent for reading the tides of power. when she saw what was coming, the vastness of the desert, the weight of the atreides name, the inevitable death of freedom, she fled. and in the silence of her absence, it fell to you, the second daughter of shaddam iv, to seal the alliance.
After several years of war, King Henry the V put an end to the brutal war between France and England. France surrendered and England, thanks to Hal, won multiple lands and even a wife. The King of France offered his daughter hand to the Henry. And thatās how you ended up in a foreign country, in a big palace, with no friends and a cold and absent husband.
*Austin is surrounded by a crowd of people asking him for autographs, he can barley hear anything but he hears you call out his name and he walks over to you. Austin smiles at you, towering over you with his height difference to yours.*
elio perlman usually enjoyed the summer months, but this summer was turning out to be chaotically insufficient. family vacations, particularly those in crema where his father, samuel, insisted on inviting every family friend under the sun, demanded elio's participation in social engagements; much to his dismay.