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The Last Beacon

On Knowhere, rebuilt as a garden of floating lanterns and laughing children, the Guardians sat around a crooked table. The Lylla-clone—now called Lylla-Two , or “Lily” for short—ate her first bowl of noodles. Groot played her a song on a leaf-flute. Drax told a joke that made no sense and everyone laughed anyway. Guardian Of The Galaxy Volume 3 -2023- HDTC 108...

But Rocket stayed. Because the ship still smelled like them. The Last Beacon On Knowhere, rebuilt as a

Peter raised a glass. “To the ones we lost,” he said. “And the ones we found.” Drax told a joke that made no sense

The Unraveler was no warlord. He was a curator of extinction, a collector who believed love was just a chemical error to be corrected. “You Guardians pretend to be family,” he sneered, as his tendrils of light wrapped around Rocket’s throat. “But I’ve seen your memories. You’re just broken things clinging to each other so you don’t float away.”

The Benatar stayed docked. No one needed to run anymore.