ORIGINAL ENGLISH PASSAGE
Blood covered her hands, and when it dried in the hot desert air, Mapes regretted the waste of water. But that couldn’t be helped—these men needed to die. They were Harkonnens.
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In Mapes’s thoughts, enmity and water discipline intertwine. Even in a battle scene, readers encounter the desert’s resource logic.
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