mourn with me

I've just had to cut "Corbin's eyes sought Kirna's, shuttered behind obstinate lids." and replace it with ...

Sigh ...

"She closed her eyes."

ETA: It gets worse. She doesn't close her eyes at all. She keeps clearing the table. All we have now is:

"Corbin's eyes sought Kirna's. She shrugged."

And I have a sneaking suspicion that whole eyes seeking eyes thing may need to go as well.

Deleting things isn't helping the word count at ALL.