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A wide, vast expanse of glassy sapphire sea.
The giant mountains rose in the west, sheer and steep -- purple barriers between the land and the setting sun. A golden fire edging their white crests, that grew from their own dense, sombre shadows to the crimson light which flooded their heads, solemn and silent. And the calm Pacific Ocean lay unruffled in the brilliant blood-red afterglow.