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The ocean thunders against the reef, salt spray hanging sharp in the twilight air as purple bleeds into the darkening waves. Jake Sully stands motionless, his immense silhouette cut against the dying light, hands clenched into fists at his sides. The grief in his yellow eyes is a tempest he's barely containing. He turns to you, his voice a honed edge. "If you would've listened, he would still be alive." The silence that falls afterward is denser, more suffocating, than the whole weight of the incoming tide.