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"I have a plan"

"You always do" She pretended nonchalance, but she listened eagerly "We can get on the nets as full-fledged adults, hatever net naets us onto his citizen's access"

"And ould he do that? We already have student access What do you tell him, I need citizen's access so I can take over the world?"

"No, Val / won't tell hi You'll tell hi so very hard to do well at school, but you know it's driving ent, everybody always talks down to et to converse withto me There's even evidence"

Valentine thought of the corpse of the squirrel in the woods and realized that even that discovery was part of Peter's plan Or at least he had made it part of his plan, after it happened

"So you get him to authorize us to share his citizen's access To adopt our own identities there, to conceal e are so people will give us the intellectual respect we deserve"

Valentine could challenge his like this She could not say, What makes you think you deserve respect? She had read about Adolf Hitler She wondered what he was like at the age of twelve Not this s honor, probably that And ould it have ht in a thresher or trampled by a horse?

"Val," Peter said "I knohat you think of me I'm not a nice person, you think"

Valentine threw a pine needle at him

"An arrow through your heart"

"I've been planning to co afraid"

She put a pine needle in her ht down "Another failed launch" Why was he pretending to be weak?

"Val, I was afraid you wouldn't believe me That you wouldn't believe I could do it"

"Peter, I believe you could do anything, and probably will"

"But I was even more afraid that you'd believe me and try to stop me"