Rufus was ready to die
I find the scene toward the end of the book, where Dana comes back to a distraught Rufus having recently discovered Alice's body, very interesting. So far, Dana had only been summoned to Rufus when he was in immediate danger - in a fight, or about to burn his house down - but this time, it seems that Rufus is just heavily grieving. I was confused at first when Dana appeared there, but my the end of the scene it started to make sense. Rufus moves to assault Dana, but it just didn't seem like that was actually what he wanted. In their conversation just months ago, Rufus and Dana acknowledge that Dana has the power to let him die. Some time before that, Dana says that neither she nor Rufus would come out alive if he ever tried to rape her. Yet, with both sets of knowledge, Rufus tries to do so anyway. In a time when he's deep in panic and grief over the person he felt he loved dying, he wants Dana? That just doesn't make much sense to me - even though Dana and Alice blur...