The Day-Bringer: The Sun's Apprentice

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There is only one place in the galaxy still known to harbor life, and on its longest, final night, a solitary guardian stands on the Earth. Bundled against the bone-chilling cold of the upper atmosphere, his thick gloves are warmed not by his suit, but by his precious cargo. He lifts a simple, rusted lantern. Within it doesn't flicker a simple flame, but the concentrated pulse of a star. He is a "Lightbringer," and as the shadow of the Earth reaches its darkest point, he offers the lantern upward, like a beacon. His single, defiant act is to pull a world from eternal twilight, making the ancient lantern serve as a sun for one more precious day.