Thunder Dome ambergris

the raven shut her eyes as sundance's voice swept over her, wakening each fiber of her being and darkening her eyes with some emotion that so fervently wished to be desire. and yet her flesh felt locked, her blood unresponsive; not for him, but for all, and it was a truth she was only realizing each second by dreadful second.
she was ruined. teya almost wanted to laugh. here was a beautiful man glowing with love, a longheld desire which spanned several years, the promise of a future that could finally exist, and she was too exhausted to take hold of it.
"sundance. i have no more heart to give." broken over and over, by herself and by others, the dissolved pieces were not treasures, but shards of pain, and she would never forgive herself if she watched this look in his eye slowly turn to the same. "too sad to love."