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"Why not? You won before"

"I cannot be the coood and sufficient reasons"

"Show ers, Mazer"

Mazer's face went inscrutable

"You've shown me every other battle seven tiers did before, but you've never shown me how you actually did beat them"

"The video is a very tightly kept secret, Ender"

"I know I've pieced it together, partly You, with your tiny reserve force, and their ar their swarhters You dart in at one ship, fire at it, an explosion That's where they always stop the clips After that, it's just soldiers going into bugger ships and already finding them dead inside"

Mazer grinned "So htly kept secrets Come on, let's watch the video"

They were alone in the video rooht, let's watch"

The video showed exactly what Ender had pieced together Mazer's suicidal plunge into the heart of the enele explosion, and then--

Nothing Mazer's ship went on, dodged the shock wave, and wove his way aer ships They did not fire on hie course Two of them crashed into each other and exploded--a needless collision that either pilot could have avoided Neither htest movement

Mazer sped up the action Skipped ahead "We waited for three hours," he said "Nobody could be believe it" Then the IF ships began approaching the bugger starships Marines began their cutting and boarding operations The videos showed the buggers already dead at their posts

"So you see," said Mazer, "you already knew all there was to see"

"Why did it happen?"

"Nobody knows I have my personal opinions But there are plenty of scientists who tell me I'm less than qualified to have opinions"