Terribly
poor example of a rape scene, no description what so ever, just meaningless
abstracts.
Lord Foul’s Bane (1977) by Stephen Donaldson.
Chapter 7.
Covenant's back clenched abruptly still,
and he said with preternatural quietness, "Are you trying to drive me
crazy?"
His ominous tone startled her, chilled her.
For an instant, her courage stumbled; she felt the river and the ravine closing
around her like the jaws of a trap. Then Covenant whirled and struck her a
stinging slap across the face.
The force of the blow sent her staggering
back into the light of the graveling. He followed quickly, his face contorted
in a wild grin. As she caught her balance, got one last, clear, terrified look
at him, she felt sure that he meant to kill her. The thought paralyzed her. She
stood dumb and helpless while he approached.
Reaching her, he knotted his hands in the
front of her shift and rent the fabric like a veil. She could not move. For an
instant, he stared at her, at her high, perfect breasts and her short slip,
with grim triumph in his eyes, as though he had just exposed some foul plot.
Then he gripped her shoulder with his left hand and tore away her slip with his
right, forcing her down to the sand as he uncovered her.
Now she wanted to resist, but her limbs
would not move; she was helpless with anguish.
A moment later, he dropped the burden of
his weight on her chest, and her loins were stabbed with a wild, white fire
that broke her silence, made her scream. But even as she cried out she knew
that it was too late for her. Something that her people thought of as a gift
had been torn from her.
But Covenant did not feel like a taker. His
climax flooded him as if he had fallen into a Mithil of molten fury.
Suffocating in passion, he almost swooned. Then time seemed to pass him by, and
he lay still for moments that might have been hours for all he knew -hours
during which his world could have crumbled, unheeded.
At last he remembered the softness of
Lena's body under him, felt the low shake of her sobbing. With an effort, he
heaved himself up and to his feet. When he looked down at her in the graveling
light, he saw the blood on her loins. Abruptly, his head became giddy,
unbalanced, as though he were peering over a precipice. He turned and hurried
with a shambling, unsteady gait toward the river, pitched himself fiat on the
rock, and vomited the weight of his guts into the water. And the Mithil erased
his vomit as cleanly as if nothing had happened.
He lay still on the rock while the
exhaustion of his exacerbated nerves overcame him. He did not hear Lena arise,
gather the shreds of her clothing, speak, or climb away out of the shattered
ravine.
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