Thunder Dome ambergris

you never had me! teya felt herself wanting to lash back, but instead she hung her head. a great exhale swelled her sides, and when she looked up at sundance it was with a deep and abiding affection. "nothing to lose," the raven said with monumental effort, fighting the urge of her eyes to brim and run and betray her. "just cannot be here anymore. too many memories."
and though the circlet of sundance's silverwhite arms beckoned teya, promised her a peace and a hope she so dearly wanted to experience, she resisted.
bronco had held her, bronco had understood, bronco had seen teya, and she had never stopped seeing him everywhere she looked.
"sundance, you will always live in the shadows of my mates." at the last she included reyes in that, for though she had not adored him the same, she had missed him and his death had shaken her and broken the last thing between she and sorana. she had no more to give love, and how unfair to keep sundance beneath the great blackened weight of two marriages and all the failures in between. teya did not think she would ever recover, a truth growing more insistent and more harsh.
"not a place for you to live." her coolwater eyes were blinking now as tears sprang, but teya made herself look at the tall man through their stained-glass blur. "not a place i want you to live, for any second."