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Instead of a dozen boys, there were forty-five that night, more than an army, and whether it was because of the presence of older boys on Ender's side or because they had had enough the night before, none of their enemies came

Ender didn't go back to the fantasy ga how it felt to kill the snake, grinding it in, the way he tore the ear off that boy, the way he destroyed Stilson, the way he broke Bernard's ar the corpse of his ene out at hiame tells filthy lies I am not Peter I don't have murder in my heart

And then a worse fear, that he was a killer, only better at it than Peter ever was; that it was this very trait that pleased the teachers It's killers they need for the bugger wars It's people who can grind the enemy's face into the dust and spatter their blood all over space

Well, I'm your man I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it reed with thelad

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LOCKE AND DEMOSTHENES

"I didn't call you in here t

o waste time How in hell did the computer do that?"

"I don't know"

"How could it pick up a picture of Ender's brother and put it into the graphics in this Fairyland routine?"

"Colonel Graff, I wasn't there when it was programmed All I know is that the computer's never taken anyone to this place before Fairyland was strange enough, but this isn't Fairyland anymore It's beyond the End of the World, and--"

"I know the names of the places, I just don't knohat they mean"

"Fairyland was progra talks about the End of the World We don't have any experience with it"

"I don't like having the coin is the most potent person in his life, except maybe his sister Valentine"

"And the ned to help shape them, help them find worlds they can be comfortable in"