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"We had pilots with our ships, didn't we"

"Yes"

"I was ordering pilots to go in and die and I didn't even know it"

"They knew it, Ender, and they went anyway They knehat it was for"

"You never asked !"

"You had to be a weapon, Ender Like a gun, like the Little Doctor, functioning perfectly but not knohat you were aimed at We ai, we did it"

"Tell me later," Ender said His eyes closed

Mazer Rackhao to sleep, Ender," he said "It's very important"

"You're finished with me," Ender said "Now leave me alone"

"That's e're here," Mazer said "We're trying to tell you They're not through with you, not at all It's crazy down there They're going to start a war A the Warsaw Pact is about to attack, and the Russians are saying the saer war isn't twenty-four hours dead and the world down there is back to fighting again, as bad as ever And all of thereatest military leader in history, they want you to lead their aremon Everybody but the Warsaw Pact, and they want you dead"

"Fine with me," said Ender

"We have to take you away from here There are Russian marines all over Eros, and the Polemarch is Russian It could turn to bloodshed at any time"

Ender turned his back on theh He listened to them

"I was afraid of this, Rackham You pushed him too hard Some of those lesser outposts could have waited until after You could have given him some days to rest"

"Are you doing it, too, Graff? Trying to decide how I could have done it better? You don't knoould have happened if I hadn't pushed Nobody knows I did it the way I did it, and it worked Above all, it worked Memorize that defense, Graff You may have to use it, too"