"Okay. Then, uh, I'll let you get on with... yeah," Jake replied, gesturing vaguely towards Cal and what he was doing. He took one last glance at the woman. "Eywa ngahu," he said softly, then carefully spun his chair round and pushed himself out of the room and over to where Juliet was sitting with the child.
"Hey," he said, with a tiny half-smile he did not feel in the slightest. "There, uh. There was nothing we could have done... not, not even if I had been able to kick the door in. I asked."