“Theodosia, what is the resonance decay rate of the R5 projection?”
“Cancel all operations on Arrakis,” Valya said, her tone eerily calm. “Recall every asset within three jumps. And mark the file: R5 – No further attempts. The worm dreams. ”
“Sixty-three percent. We’re losing the final two seconds of her memory imprint.”
The projection flickered to life. It was not a recording of an event, but a reverberation —the psychic residue of a mission attempted five times, each iteration ending in a scream that never escaped the vacuum of a ruined Heighliner.
The Sisterhood had been outprophesied. And on Wallach IX, for the first time in ten thousand years, the Mother Superior felt afraid.
Theodosia hesitated. “Mother, the resonance trauma from the fifth attempt… it ages the viewer.”
“Theodosia, what is the resonance decay rate of the R5 projection?”
“Cancel all operations on Arrakis,” Valya said, her tone eerily calm. “Recall every asset within three jumps. And mark the file: R5 – No further attempts. The worm dreams. ”
“Sixty-three percent. We’re losing the final two seconds of her memory imprint.”
The projection flickered to life. It was not a recording of an event, but a reverberation —the psychic residue of a mission attempted five times, each iteration ending in a scream that never escaped the vacuum of a ruined Heighliner.
The Sisterhood had been outprophesied. And on Wallach IX, for the first time in ten thousand years, the Mother Superior felt afraid.
Theodosia hesitated. “Mother, the resonance trauma from the fifth attempt… it ages the viewer.”
