Release my heart, if you won't give yours. For my heart longs for a release that it can not find. Denied you, rejecting all others. Longing - always for you.
Unshed tears, glittered like diamonds in the moonlight. Their cause, unspoken but no less potent, lies in the parchment at her feet. So eargerly opened, so fervently devoured, so slowly unraveled as its meaning sank in, and in shock fell from her nerveless fingers.