Pages 296-344 Summary

The worm slows towards dusk, leaving Odrade still ignorant of how Shaitan and Sheeana communicate. The worm stops with its body parallel to the wall's base and twitches, telling Sheeana that they must get off. Waff is afraid to dismount, but accepts Odrade's quotation from the Sharia. Having told Sheeana that it wants them to be here, the worm returns to the desert. They walk towards a dark fissure in the wall, which opens into a large, polished chamber that smells of melange.

This in the main gathering chamber where Stilgar once presided, Muad'dib trained fighters, and both the original Duncan Idaho and first ghola Duncan have been here. Odrade slips into a small room reeking of melange and in the dust finds a thin, deep etching that in Chakobsa declares, "You have found me!" This is the work of the...