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"It's already too late for that"

"You're wrong, Ender You think you're grown up and tired and jaded with everything, but in your heart you're just as much a kid as I aoverning the colony and I'uess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's roohts"

Ender laughed, but he had noticed sos she dropped too casually for the?"

"I' A public announcement that I believed soin the first ship myself At the same time, the Minister of Colonization, a former colonel named Graff, announced that the pilot of the colony ship would be the great Mazer Rackhaovernor of the first colony it established would be Ender Wiggin"

"They ht have asked me"

"I wanted to ask you myself"

"But it's already announced"

"No They'll be announcing it too, back in Eros"

"You're telling everyone that you're Deirl?"

"We're only telling the with the colony Let theer list, trying to figure out which one of thee of Locke"

Ender laughed and shook his head "You're actually having fun, Val"

"I can't think why I shouldn't"

"All right," said Ender "I'll go Maybe even as governor, as long as you and Mazer are there to help me My abilities are a little underused at present"

She squealed and hugged hiot the present that she wanted from her little brother

"Val," he said "I just want one thing clear I'overnor, or because I'ers better than any other living soul, and o there I can understand thein to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past"