To reach Paul’s plane of prescience, Alia ingests an enormous dose of spice. She looks for the father of her children in the ensuing vision, frustrated by her inability to see him.

Hayt finds Alia deep under the influence of spice and calls medics, fearing she has taken a lethal dose. Alia refuses medical help, determined to experience her vision. Hayt stays with her and Alia senses that he loves her; Hayt does not deny it. Alia’s vision reveals that Hayt is both “danger and salvation” for Paul (291), and that Paul is attempting to coalesce all timelines into one potential future but is not sure why.

She sees that “deification is a prison enclosing him” (293), and that Paul will not be able to bear living in a world where Chani is dead, and he is a god. Alia sees that someday she will give birth to a prescient child like herself.

Paul travels to Sietch Tabr, deep in the Fremen desert, with Chani, who will soon give birth despite only being five months pregnant. Chani finds the company Paul has summoned to them strange: Edric, Scytale (still in disguise as Lichna), Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Alia, Hayt, Bijaz, Stilgar, and Stilgar’s wife Harah.