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To: Trireme[email protected]

Re: Final decision

Wiggin:

Subj not to be killed Subj will be transported according to plan 2, route 1 Dep Tue 0400, checkpoint 30600, which is first light Please be sh to remember the international dateline He is yours if you want him

If your intelligence outweighs your ambition you will kill him If vice versa, you will try to use him You did not ask my advice, but I have seen him in action: Kill him

True, without an antagonist to frighten the world you will never retrieve the power the office of Hegemon once had It would be the end of your career

Let him live, and it is the end of your life, and you will leave the world in his pohen you die Who is the monster? Or at least monster 2?

And I have told you how to get him Am I monster 3? Or merely fool 1?

Your faithful servant in motley

Bean kind of liked being tall, even though it was going to kill him

And at the rate he was growing, it would be sooner rather than later How long did he have? A year? Three? Five? The ends of his bones were still like a child's, blosso, so that like a baby he had a soft patch of cartilage and new bone along the crest of his skull

It meant constant adjust theht on stairs and sills, his legs were longer so that as he walked he covered ground more quickly, and companions had to hurry to keep up When he trained with his soldiers, the elite company of eer than theirs

He had long since earned the respect of his ht, they finally, literally, looked up to him

Bean stood on the grass where two assault choppers aiting for his erous one--to penetrate Chinese air space and intercept a s toward the interior Everything depended on secrecy, surprise, and the extraordinarily accurate infor from inside China in the past few months

Bean wished he knew the source of the intelligence, because his life and the lives of his men depended on it The accuracy up to now could easily have been a setup Even though "Hegemon" was essentially an empty title now, since most of the world's population resided in countries that had withdrawn their recognition of the authority of the office, Peter Wiggin had been using Bean's soldiers well They were a constant irritant to the newly expansionist China, inserting themselves here and there at exactly the moment most calculated to disrupt the confidence of the Chinese leadership