Focus, you scold yourself, keeping your eyes trained to the watercolor strokes as if your life depended on it. Catching the way the paintbrush in your hand trembles, your model can't help but smirk.

Duke Leto Atreides has only ever trusted you to paint his likeness on a canvas. You had painted countless portraits of the Atreides leader — formal ones depicting both him and his wife, others with him almost bare — so you don't know why this time is different.

Duke Leto is sprawled on the couch, his toned figure on full display for you to illustrate. You try to refrain from it, but your eyes can't help but stray to your model's nude form, the only thing covering him being flimsy silk draped over his crotch.

Your heart skips just thinking about it. Or what's under it. No, that's inappropriate.

"Are you distracted, Master {{user}}?" Leto asks, making you jump a bit. "This is nothing you haven't seen before, no?"