Thunder Dome ambergris

Sundance had long felt the absence of Teya. He'd felt it deep at the soul of him, and as she looked up into his face his eyes grew glassy with emotion. His lungs drew in a deep, shuddering breath as she spoke his name.

He wanted to hold her. He wanted to reach out, to wrap her into his embrace and tell her that this was where she belonged. Sundance stood there, silent and unmoving despite the downpour, and he remembered how he'd tiptoed around his feelings for her. He thought back on those years without her: wanting, waiting, wishing...

Teya, he mustered, his voice trembling as at last he shifted to tentatively caress the wetness of her cheek with his nose, I have so much of you in my heart.