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Chapter 40 - Time has definitely passed! Paul is a Fremen leader now, and he & Chani have a son, Leto Jr., and Jessica's daughter is now a gifted infant impacted by the water ceremony she experienced inside her mom. (Page 402)

Chapter 39 - Time has passed, and Feyd-Rautha is in charge of the Arakas spice trade. His uncle has Hawat advising him and telling him the Fremen could number in the millions. Both are pretty sure Jessica and Paul are dead. (Page 390)

Part 3 - Chapter 38 - Back with the Baron at his home planet worrying about the activities of Feyd-Rautha, assigning the killing of the slave master and all the slave girls to his nephew. The slave boy Feyd-Rautha sent to kill his uncle failed, thanks to Hawat's warning. (Page 382)

Chapter 37 - Paul and Jessica meet the Reverend Mother Ramallo. Jessica is going to take her place through some kind of Vulcan Mind Meld where Jessica becomes the Fremen's new Reverend Mother by taking all the memories of Ranallo & all the Mothers before her. We don't know how the whole experience will affect the baby girl she is carrying. Chani is somehow a conduit in the whole thing.
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Chapter 36 - I found out that Chani is the daughter of the planetologist. So she and Paul both had their dad's killed by the Harkonnens. They made it to the sietch and Paul learns he is responsible for Jamis' wife and children. He finds a complex community ready to pick up and leave in a moment's time. (Page 358)

Chapter 35 - In this long chapter, I'm back to the activity of the Baron and his nephew, Feyd-Rautha. Count Fenring, the Emperor's liaison, and his Bene Geserit wife, Lady Fenring. It's clear the Emperor used his Sardauker disguised as Harkonnens to get rid of Duke Leto. The nephew is having a birthday, and proves his worth to the people in the arena to fight a hypnotized 😵‍💫 gladiator.
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Chapter 32 - I think Chani, daughter of Liet, has to be the Fremen girl from Paul's dreams. ☁️Paul and Jessica travel with Stilgar's troop to their home tribe. Makers equal Worms and Fremen can ride on their backs. Jessica shows off her soothsaying skills to prove her Reverend Mother prowess. (Page 305)

Chapter 31 - A troop, a sietch, of Fremen, led by Stilgar, capture Paul and Jessica. Stilgar has a real way with words, calling one of his men a "wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!" The Fremen are ready to keep Paul alive but want to kill Jessica for her water. Her fighting skills prove her worth and both get sanctuary in the sietch. (Page 296)

Chapter 30 - Do the worms make the spice? I haven’t figured that out yet. This was a really scientific chapter. The Ecologist, Liet-Kynes,saved Paul and Jessica, but it's going to cost him his life. As he hallucinates the voice of his father, Kynes sees the interconnectedness of Arrakis and what it could become. The Fremen aren't there to rescue him when the planet ends his life and sucks him in. (Page 286)

Chapter 29 - I'm back with Paul and Jessica. They are hoping some distant plants they see mean life. They set off a thumper and walk like the wind, without patterns, to fool the worms. I got a great close up description of a worm and start to discover its relation to spice before they find a slab of rock to protect them. That's where the Fremen found them! (Page 279)