CHAMBER OF WISHES ⋆ Paul Atreides

CHAMBER OF WISHES.

She used to think that she wanted to be good, she wanted to be kind, she wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. She wanted to be loved, too, if she could fit it in.

TENDER IS THE NIGHT / F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

     LOVISA KOSKINEN IS EXPECTED TO BE NOTHING SHORT OF PERFECTION. While denied a formal graduation and the title of "Swordmaster" from the Ginaz School, Lovisa was the among the top, if not the topmost, of her class and was regarded as such when adopted into House Harkonnen at the ripe age of seventeen. Members of House Ginaz followed the traditional societal order in which men trained to be warriors and women their concubines; however, Lovisa was enrolled into the academy under the male alias "Levi" by the man who raised her after her parents exchanged their eldest child for hallucinogens.

     Days away from graduation, Lovisa's true identity was publicly outted and she was immediately banished from the school and shunned within society, dished off to the prison planet after being declared guilty of an imperial crime. Believing all hope was lost, she received an unexpected visit from none other than a representative of House Harkonnen. They reassured Lovisa that Harkonnen disregarded the shame surrounding her actions, but rather paid sole attention to her abilities as as a swordsman and her potential to be a spy, as she had spent most of her seventeen years of life portraying one.

And so, she is assigned the task of staking out Arrakis while awaiting Atreides' arrival, where she runs into an old friend and realizes that the family who governs the house that rivals her own may not be as corrupt as Harkonnen makes them out to be after all.