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"They'd believe me"

"Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister"

"Oh, yes," said Valentine "They'll believe that T didn't knoould kill Andrew And when he was dead, I didn't knoould kill Valentine too'"

The pressure let up a little

"So Not today But soether And there'll be an accident"

"You're all talk," Valentine said "You don't mean any of it"

"I don't?"

"And do you knohy you don't overnment someday You want to be elected And they won't elect you if your opponents can dig up the fact that your brother and sister both died in suspicious accidents when they were little Especially because of the letter I've put in my secret file in the city library, which will be opened in the event of my death"

"Don't give me that kind of crap," Peter said

"It says, I didn't die a natural death Peter killed me, and if he hasn't already killed Andrew, he will soon Not enough to convict you, but enough to keep you fro elected"

"You're his ht You better be there"

"Ender and I aren't stupid We scored as well as you did on everything Better on soht children You're not the sest"

"Oh, I know But there'll coet And suddenly you'll remember, and you'll rush to hiht And the next time you won't worry so much, and you won't coht And you'll think that I forgot Even though you'll reot And years will pass And then there'll be a terrible accident, and I'll find his body, and I'll cry and cry over him, and you'll remember this conversation, Vally, but you'll be asha, because you'll know that I changed, that it really was an accident, that it's cruel of you even to remember what I said in a childhood quarrel Except that it'll be true I'onna die, and you won't do a thing, not a thing But you go on believing that I'est"

"The biggest asshole," Valentine said

Peter leaped to his feet and started for her She shied away Ender pried off his h Loud, but with real uys are just super, just the biggest suckers on the planet earth"