fandomhigh | Destiny & Free Will, Week VII [Monday, Period 4]

The students should have gotten a ~~handwaved~~ notice to dress nicely and meet at the Danger Shop, where they were met by a Ghanima waiting just outside the door.

"Right." Reaching inside her coat, Ghanima retrieved a deck of the Dune Tarot and fanned the cards at them. "Step right up, and ask me what today holds for you. Through there --" she gestured at the door to the Shop with the cards, " -- is the Monte Carlo Casino of Monaco. One of the most famous casinos in the world, renowned for its elegance and architecture."

"Your mission is to take the future I forsee, and try to beat it. If I tell you that you are destined to win big, sit outside and give away chips. If I say you fail, go cheat the casino by whatever means you choose. The only rule is not to get caught doing anything illegal by security; that would be a failure of the exam." Not that Ghanima was actually grading them based on the final, she preferred to look at their overall body of work. "I want to see how many of you manage to flaunt destiny."

"After all," she grinned humorlessly, flipping up the Hanged Man with ease. "Navigating the future is a family talent. Who wants to try and beat the oracular Atreides?"

[OOC: OCD Awaits! And now, I crassssssssssssh. Feel free to tag me ooc if there's a future you want Ghani to give your student, otherwise it will be randomized.]

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Dinah bit her lip, disappointed, and then sighed. "Okay. I'll take what I can get." She fiddled with the bracelet again, then said, "I just--" Okay, suck it up. "I had a, um. Experience, over there, that was disturbing. It'd be nice not to have to work so hard to keep things out." She looked at Ghanima, thinking of her mental barriers between her and the tau. "But I don't want to screw up my brain, either."

"We can do that," she assured Dinah. "There are a number of mental exercises and trainings that a Bene Gesserit must master before becoming a Reverend Mother, all of which are designed to protect the core personality against the onslaught of the Other Lives within them. There is no reason that these efforts cannot work for you as well."

"Many of the meditations you are already working on are the first steps towards the more advanced lessons, actually."

Relieved, Dinah nodded. "That sounds good. Really good. Thank you. I'll work even harder at this, not just for the dream control, but everything else too." She beamed at Ghanima, dropping her wrist to her side. "And... thank you for being there when I woke up. It was a huge relief to be safe again."

"I can't think of anywhere else I would have rather been, other than not needing to be there at all," Ghanima said, meaning every word of it.

"If you ever need a safe space, or just somewhere quiet to practice, you can always use my office, even if I'm not there," she continued. "Or if it's an emergency, come straight to my suite."

Dinah restrained the urge to pounce-hug Ghanima, even though she wanted to. "Thanks. I so, so appreciate that." Sometimes it seemed like there were always people everywhere, and it was hard to kick Claire out of her own room too often. "I'll remember. I hope I won't need to, but. You know what this place is like."

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