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Meanwhile, a new religious figure called "The Preacher" has risen in the desert, rallying against the religious government's injustices and the changes among the Fremen. Some Fremen believe he is Paul Atreides. Princess [[Wensicia]] of the fallen House Corrino on [[Salusa Secundus]] plots to assassinate the twins and regain power for her House.
[[Lady Jessica]] returns to Arrakis and recognizes that her daughter is possessed, but finds no signs of Abomination in the twins. Leto arranges for Fremen leader [[Stilgar]] to protect his sister if there is an attempt on their lives. The Preacher journeys to Salusa Secundus to meet Wensicia's son [[Farad'n]], and in return pledges the [[Duncan Idaho]] [[ghola]] as an agent of House Corrino. Alia attempts to assassinate Jessica, who escapes into the desert with Duncan's help, precipitating a rebellion among the Fremen. The twins anticipate and survive the Corrino assassination plot, but Ghanima psychologically wills herself to believe that Leto was killed. Leto then leaves to seek out Jacurutu, a mythical Fremen sietch and possible holdout of the Preacher, while Ghanima, changing her memory with self-hypnosis, reports (and believes) that her brother has been murdered. Duncan and Jessica flee to Salusa Secundus, where Jessica begins to mentor Farad'n. He sidelines and publicly denounces his regent mother Wensicia over the assassination attempt on the twins, and allies with the [[Bene Gesserit]], who promise to marry him to Ghanima and support his bid to become Emperor.
A band of Fremen outlaws capture Leto and force him to undergo the spice trance at the suggestion of [[Gurney Halleck]], who has infiltrated the group on Jessica's orders. Leto's spice-induced visions show him myriad possible futures where humanity becomes extinct and only one where it survives. He names this future "The Golden Path" and resolves to bring it to fruition—something that his father, who had already glimpsed this future, refused to do. He escapes his captors and sacrifices his humanity in pursuit of the Golden Path by physically fusing with a school of [[sandtrout]], the larval form of sandworms, in the process gaining superhuman strength and near-invulnerability. He travels across the desert destroying [[Qanat|qanats]] to slow down the ecological transformation of Dune, and eventually confronts the Preacher, who is indeed Paul.
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