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"No"

"You're going into the Hegemony, aren't you?"

"I'm the new Minister of Colonization"

"So they're doing it"

"As soon as we get the reports back on the bugger colony worlds Iand industry in place, and all the buggers dead Very convenient We'll repeal the population limitation laws--"

"Which everybody hates--"

"And all those thirds and fourths and fifths will get on starships and head out for worlds known and unknown"

"Will people really go?"

"People always go Always They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world"

"What the hell, maybe they can"

At first Ender believed that they would bring his were quiet now, had been quiet for a year, and it was plain to hi him back at all, that he was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconvenient flesh-and-blood person

And there was the matter of the court ar tried to keep Ender fro it, but failed; Ender had been awarded the rank of admiral, too, and this was one of the few ties the rank ihts with Stilson and Bonzo, watched as the photographs of the corpses were displayed, listened as the psychologists and lawyers argued whetherwas in self-defense Ender had his own opinion, but no one asked hihout the trial, it was really Ender hie him directly, but there were attempts to make him look sick, perverted, criminally insane

"Never mind," said Mazer Rackham "The politicians are afraid of you, but they can't destroy your reputation yet That won't be done until the historians get at you in thirty years"

Ender didn't care about his reputation He watched the videos impassively, but in fact he was aers, whose queens, at least, were as alive and wise as any ainst us, and no one thinks to call it a crime

All his crihed heavy on hihter than the rest