He was trapped in his delusion again. If he meant to survive, he could not afford the luxury of grieving over lost hopes. He was a leper; all his hopes were false. They were his enemies. They could kill him by blinding him to the lethal power of facts.
The false dilemma remains. His best path forward is based on assuming the Land is real and interacting with it to get sent back to his original realm.
But because Covenant believes the Land is an illusion he makes his own situation worse.
Please save me from stupid (and rapey) main characters that create their own problems.
