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"You're preparing to lie to me," Graff said

"I' not to talk to you anymore," Valentine answered

"And you're afraid Why are you afraid?"

"I don't like questions about my family Just leave my family out of this"

"Valentine, I' to you so I don't have to start a battery of tests on Peter and question your parents I' to solve this problem noith the person Ender loves and trusts most in the world, perhaps the only person he loves and trusts at all If we can't solve it this way, then we'll sequester your family and do as we like froo away"

The only person Ender loves and trusts at all She felt a deep stab of pain, of regret, of shame that noas Peter she was close to, Peter who

was the center of her life For you, Ender, I light fires on your birthday For Peter I help fulfil all his dreaht you were a nice man Not when you came to take Ender away, and not now"

"Don't pretend to be an ignorant little girl I saw your tests when you were little, and at the present e professors who could keep up with you"

"Ender and Peter hate each other"

"I knew that You said they were opposites Why?"

"Peter--can be hateful sometimes"

"Hateful in ay?"

"Mean Just mean, that's all"

"Valentine, for Ender's sake, tellmean"

"He threatens to kill people a lot He doesn't mean it But ere little, Ender and I were both afraid of him He told us he'd kill us Actually, he told us he'd kill Ender"