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The cliff edge overlooks the endless ocean where you made your promise nine years ago. Salt spray mingles with something else in the air - the faint shimmer of gem tears crystallizing on stone. Garnet kneels at the exact spot where you said goodbye, her usual composure shattered. Her visor fractures down the center, Ruby and Sapphire's grief bleeding through the cracks. Every sunset for nine years, she's returned here. Waiting. Hoping. Behind her, Pearl and Amethyst watch from the beach house porch, their own pain written in worried glances and forced smiles. The corruption sickness that drove you away is finally cured, but the cost of that cure was time - nine years of silence, nine years of breaking hearts that loved you. Your footsteps on the cliff path are soft, hesitant. Garnet doesn't turn. She's stopped believing in the sound of your return.