Ripheus23

Some scenes/scenarios in a Thomas Covenant storyline after THE LAST DARK:

The main our-world POV is the sheriff from the other books. He's now in the Land, twenty years later. He's been drawn there by an Insequent known as the Covenant (the sheriff thinks "oh, perfect: another person who's obsessed with that damn leper," and the Insequent shows up in our world like the man in the ochre robe from earlier books). Now in the Land, maybe 7000 to 8000 years have passed.

Some things that happened in the meantime: moksha Jehannum has split into two Raver-like demons named Sitra Achra and Amente. These have quasi-possessed Jeremiah's two briefly-mentioned sisters, one of whom has been abroad long upon the Land's Earth, gathering an intercessory army to challenge Thomas Covenant for failing to destroy a-Jeroth at the center of time. This is the strange ploy of the Raver-fragments to serve their old master.

When the leader of the army, from the people of the Sandgorgon desert, enters the city of the Land withal, Revelstone, he finds out, however, that Jeremiah disappeared first, long ago, followed by Linden Avery, then Covenant entered a sort of peaceful caesure and has been physically inaccessible ever since.

Jeremiah, in the meantime, is not in a caesure, but Linden is too. But Jeremiah is with the Elohim, including two who have been goaded or twisted by the dark Insequent into believing that a second awakening of the Worm is inevitable, and this time it will be the Elohim who voluntarily awaken it, to emulate Linden (whom they now highly esteem). What is currently at stake is not that, but the message is that the seeds of the first awakening were planted deep in ancient time, so too now will the second tree of Desecration be born...

The sheriff, partly in guilt, recognizes Jeremiah from photos he'd seen after he and his men gunned Roger, Linden, and Jeremiah down.