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"While I killed billions"

"I wasn't going to say that

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"So he wanted to use me?"

"He had plans for you, Ender He would publicly reveal hi to in's older brother, who also happened to be the great Locke, the architect of peace Standing next to you, he would look quite er than ever It would be quite simple for him, then, to take over"

"Why did you stop him?"

"Ender, you wouldn't be happy spending the rest of your life as Peter's pawn"

"Why not? I've spent my life as someone's pawn"

"Me too I showed Peter all the evidence that I had asseh to prove in the eyes of the public that he was a psychotic killer It included full-color pictures of tortured squirrels and some of the monitor videos of the way he treated you It took soether, but by the tiive me what I wanted What I wanted was your freedom and mine"

"It's not o live in the house of the people that I killed"

"Ender, what's done is done Their worlds are empty now, and ours is full And we can take with us what their worlds have never known--cities full of people who live private, individual lives, who love and hate each other for their own reasons In all the bugger worlds, there was never le story to be told; e're there, the world will be full of stories, and we'll is to Peter And if you don't go with me now, he'll have you there, and use you up until you wish you'd never been born Now is the only chance you'll get to get away"

Ender said nothing

"I knohat you're thinking, Ender You're thinking that I' to control you just as much as Peter or Graff or any of the others"

"It crossed my mind"

"Welcome to the human race Nobody controls his own life, Ender The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you I didn't come here because I wanted to be a colonist I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated Noant a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore"