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When
the
storm
passed
,
there
was
the
pan
—
a
giant
oval
depression
some
three
hundred
kilometers
on
the
long
axis
—
a
glaring
white
surprise
in
the
open
desert
.
Kynes
landed
,
tasted
the
pan
’
s
storm
-
cleaned
surface
.
Salt
.
Now
,
he
was
certain
.
There
’
d
been
open
water
on
Arrakis
—
once
.
He
began
reexamining
the
evidence
of
the
dry
wells
where
trickles
of
water
had
appeared
and
vanished
,
never
to
return
.
Kynes
set
his
newly
trained
Fremen
limnologist
to
work
:
their
chief
clue
,
leathery
scraps
of
matter
sometimes
found
with
the
spice
-
mass
after
a
blow
.
This
had
been
ascribed
to
a
fictional
“
sandtrout
”
in
Fremen
folk
stories
.
As
facts
grew
into
evidence
,
a
creature
emerged
to
explain
these
leathery
scraps
—
a
sandswimmer
that
blocked
off
water
into
fertile
pockets
within
the
porous
lower
strata
below
the
280
°
(
absolute
)
line
.
This
“
water
-
stealer
”
died
by
the
millions
in
each
spice
-
blow
.
A
five
-
degree
change
in
temperature
could
kill
it
.
The
few
survivors
entered
a
semidormant
cyst
-
hibernation
to
emerge
in
six
years
as
small
(
about
three
meters
long
)
sandworms
.
Of
these
,
only
a
few
avoided
their
larger
brothers
and
pre
-
spice
water
pockets
to
emerge
into
maturity
as
the
giant
shai
-
hulud
.
(
Water
is
poisonous
to
shai
-
hulud
as
the
Fremen
had
long
known
from
drowning
the
rare
“
stunted
worm
”
of
the
Minor
Erg
to
produce
the
awareness
-
spectrum
narcotic
they
call
Water
of
Life
.
The
“
stunted
worm
”
is
a
primitive
form
of
shai
-
hulud
that
reaches
a
length
of
only
about
nine
meters
.
)
Now
they
had
the
circular
relationship
:
little
maker
to
pre
-
spice
mass
;
little
maker
to
shai
-
hulud
;
shai
-
hulud
to
scatter
the
spice
upon
which
fed
microscopic
creatures
called
sand
plankton
;
the
sand
plankton
,
food
for
shai
-
hulud
,
growing
,
burrowing
,
becoming
little
makers
.
Kynes
and
his
people
turned
their
attention
from
these
great
relationships
and
focused
now
on
micro
-
ecology
.
First
,
the
climate
:
the
sand
surface
often
reached
temperatures
of
344
°
to
350
°
(
absolute
)
.
A
foot
below
ground
it
might
be
55
°
cooler
;
a
foot
above
ground
,
25
°
cooler
.
Leaves
or
black
shade
could
provide
another
18
°
of
cooling
.
Next
,
the
nutrients
:
sand
of
Arrakis
is
mostly
a
product
of
worm
digestion
;
dust
(
the
truly
omnipresent
problem
there
)
is
produced
by
the
constant
surface
creep
,
the
“
saltation
”
movement
of
sand
.
Coarse
grains
are
found
on
the
downwind
sides
of
dunes
.
The
windward
side
is
packed
smooth
and
hard
.
Old
dunes
are
yellow
(
oxidized
)
,
young
dunes
are
the
color
of
the
parent
rock
—
usually
gray
.
