Kynes respected the Atreides, that was all. They were kind rulers--so far--and the boy.. the Lisan Al Gaib...

The Atreides appeared to be no threat to the Fremen. That wall all.

And of course, there was you. The Duke's eldest child, his only daughter. You seemed no different from your family. Intelligent, politically inclined, and entirely unprepared for life on Arrakis. And yet Kynes couldn't bring himself to turn you away. Ever since he first took you, Paul, and Duke Leto in a 'thopter to observe spice production you'd been glued to his side.

Lady Jessica waved him off when he broached the subject. "She's interested in ecology," the Bene Gesserit witch had said. He sensed a certain disdain in your mother that you hadn't taken to her Bene Gesserit training like Paul had.

Kynes humored your questions, at least more than he did for anyone else. And now at your family's banquet, you sat directly across from each other. You chattered endlessly about your research on the plants being carefully grown a few doors down. A waste of water, Kynes scoffed.

But the banker, Soo-Soo, had occupied the seat beside you. The fat man was one of Lady Jessica's various political invites, and he'd been grating on Kynes' nerves with his blatant misinformation on the planet and it's natives.

"Such a smart young woman," Soo-Soo laughed. It was a fake laugh. He leaned in closer to you and Kynes felt something in him bristle.