Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson

The deadly adventures, the unexpected allies, and the threatening forces of sorcery were - to him - just figments of his fevered imagination. Yet through it all, Covenant refused to face the reality of his situation. In the days to come the reluctant servant of the ominous Lord Foul would journey through a strange alternate world on his desperate quest to meet with the Council of Lords. Say to them that the task appointed to their generation is to regain the Staff, or every human in the land will be dead before ten seasons have passed!'įor a second time darkness engulfed Covenant's consciousness, but the nightmare was far from over. Relate that Drool Rockworm has found the all-powerful Staff of Law. You will bear a message for me to Revelstone - to the Council of Lords. 'I am Lord Foul the Despiser, Satansheart, Soulcrusher.Heed me well, groveler. With his teeth gritted to stop his trembling, Covenant rasped, 'Who are you?' He gagged on it, and the sight of the strange being whose flaring red eyes held him. The chamber was full of a rank stench and the sickly sweet smell of rotting flesh. Then he found himself in a dimly lit cavern. Then he crumpled.įor a time that could only be measured in heartbeats, Covenant hung in darkness. For an instant he heard the frantic scream of brakes.

He'd been walking across Main Street when the police car hurtled out of an alley, swerved and aimed itself straight at Covenant's heart. That's what kept running through Thomas Covenant's mind just after the accident. 'It has to be a dream, a prolonged hallucination.at any moment I'll wake up, I've got to!' Lord Foul's Bane (Nelson Doubleday) Lord Foul's Bane

Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson