Broken Antler Fen sagebrush

she nodded but did not agree. teya had become accustomed to sharing intimate words and a bed with bridget, but not the inner places of herself.
not even ibis had been given that.
the only one who had come close to it was kynareth, which stung her to think about.
she was the problem, after all.
"um," she said, eyes welling with tears that provoked a bout of self-hatred. "i go away for a little while. when i come back we — i tell you. ah. anything else. or —"
she stood before bridget tensely, wanting both to be released and be held there by the cardinal.