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She moves away from the rocks along the ridge of a sand dune.
As she walks she takes two MAKER HOOKS from her belt and
telescopes them to full length. Surveying the desert.
She watches the light ornithopter flown by Paul and Jessica
mount into the sky and race for the storm. A moment later,
THREE MILITARY ORNITHOPTERS lift off in pursuit. She frowns.
Suddenly THE BLADE OF A DAGGER ERUPTS FROM KYNES’S CHEST. She
screams and tumbles down the dune, losing her maker hooks.
A SARDAUKAR ASSASSIN walks down the dune after her with a
bloody blade. At the bottom Kynes lies gasping for breath,
reaching for her crysknife which has fallen out of reach.
She looks up. Watches the Sardaukar come. Sand slipping down
the dune face under his boots.
He stops, standing over here with a cruel sneer.
SARDAUKAR ASSASSIN
Kynes. You betrayed the Emperor.
Kynes hears a sound the Sardaukar fails to notice: a HISS of
sand beneath them, growing louder.
She begins to pound the sand with her fist, a steady
drumbeat. THUMP. THUMP. THUMP.
She snarls at her killer.
KYNES
I serve only one master. His name
is Shai-Hulud!
The desert opens up beneath them as a SANDWORM surfaces, its
great maw open wide. It devours them both in a flood-tide of
sand and sinks back down into darkness.
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Paul pushes the power bar forward and pulls back on the yoke.
The little ornithopter’s engines whine as it dashes for the
storm, sinking them into their seats as it climbs.
JESSICA
Jet-flares behind us.
Paul looks back. Sees three Harkonnen ‘thopters in pursuit.
He slams the power arm forward. The ‘thopter leaping like a
frightened animal across the sky. Ahead of them, the rust-
colored cloud wall of the sandstorm. Big as a hurricane.
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