Night on Arrakis

A long night march, nearing our destination, water discpline can be relaxed a little.

Dune fan art for my patreons ,you can join my community for a dollar and make asugestins for next things to draw here

The coin, the owl of Athena, picked for its layered symbolism: foresight for the Guild navigators, to represent the Guild's ancient monopoly on trade & the Obol the penny placed on the tongues or eyes of corpses as payment for the ferryman of the dead, to carry the soul to the afterlife..
The wristwatch is a platinum Daydate with Arabic dial, 18000 years old, a trinket to buy a planet used as an everyday watch by the son of the original recipient: I imagined it might have been a bribe from the Guild to a powerful Fremen leader, who just tossed it in a drawer...