Children of Dune

Leto envisions a loving future with Sabiha but knows he must choose the Golden Path instead. He considers killing her to remove the temptation but lets her live. Leto explores the sietch’s qanats, or water channels, and the captured sandtrout. He recalls the childhood game where sandtrout covered his hand like a glove. He dives his hand into the sand and retrieves a sandtrout that stretches over his skin and begins to form a thin layer. Leto controls his body’s enzymes and forms a symbiotic relationship with the creature. He disrobes and continues to absorb more sandtrout as they link together and form a strong skin over his body. Only his head remains exposed.

Leto traverses the desert in his new skin with remarkable speed and agility, leaping meters at a time. Mature sandworms do not harm him, and he discovers that he can control them. The new skin conserves his water like a living stillsuit, and Leto confirms that he is no longer human and on the Golden Path. He plans to destroy the qanats and release all the water to set back the terraforming project and create a new timeline.