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"Only two years if you're aboard the ship"

"But if you ever came back, everybody you knew on Earth would be dead--"

"That hat I had in ht come with me"

"I don't want to go to a world we stole froo home"

"Ender, you're never going back to Earth I saw to that before I left" He looked at her in silence

"I tell you that now, so that if you want to hate "

They went to Ender's tiny compartment in the ISL and she explained Peter wanted Ender back on Earth, under the protection of the Hegeht now, Ender, that would put you effectively under Peter's control, since half the council now does just what Peter wants The ones that aren't Locke's lapdogs are under his thumb in other ways"

"Do they knoho he really is?"

"Yes He isn't publicly known, but people in high places know him It doesn't matter any e He's done incredible things, Ender"

"I noticed the treaty a year ago was named for Locke"

"That was his breakthrough He proposed it through his friends froot behind it, too It was thefor, to use Demosthenes' influence with the entsia to acco noteworthy It forestalled a really vicious war that could have lasted for decades"

"He decided to be a statesman?"

"I think so But in his cynical moments, of which there are ue to fall apart completely, he'd have had to conquer the world piece by piece As long as the Hegemony existed, he could do it in one lump"

Ender nodded "That's the Peter that I knew"

"Funny, isn't it? That Peter would save millions of lives"