The worm could feel it too and became agitated, shifting and roaring in short bursts. The t-rex was nosing at the immense doors of the hangar. Soon the flimsy corrugated steel doors would be open and it would go stomping through to eat them.

"I have to stay up here. Tauf, yes, please open one up and get everyone who doesn't have their abilities through..."

Bang, cronk, crank, roar, bang. An immense head poked through the doors like the 'HERE'S JOHNNY' moment in The Shining. Baleful, cold eyes regarded them the way a fat man regards a ham and cheetoh casserole. The mouth was filled with slobbery steak knives. The stench was like nothing any of them had ever experienced.

And the worm went slithering up to meet it. Sheeana could only exert limited control of it. The part that was Leto had ceded temporarily control to the part that was animal. Sheeana repeated the Litany Against Fear to herself.

"Sister, keep the rain off of shai-halud...We're about to be witness to a battle a hundred million years in the making."

And the worm was up against the door too, rearing up like an immense snake to present a faceless face, tripartite mouth that was just as big, a staredown between two ancient gargantuans that would make a pro wrestling promoter cream his suit.