"Uh," Quill said, feeling like he was wading into some deep lake he didn't want to swim out further into. "I mean they seemed to want to save the people of Earth, not let most of them die?"
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"Uh," Quill said, feeling like he was wading into some deep lake he didn't want to swim out further into. "I mean they seemed to want to save the people of Earth, not let most of them die?"