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"I', and you didn't ask, you commanded"
Dorabella took a deep breath and laid it on the line "If you don't have Ender Wiggin locked down and tied up in a relationship with you within these next four weeks, he aluard or in stasis, when Ad But if Ender Wiggin is Adan's son-in-law-to-be, then he will most definitely be presented to the Shakespearians as their new governor So either you will be affianced to the titular governor and hero of the human race, or you'll be permanently separated from him and will have to pick one of the local clohen it comes time for you to marry"
Alessandra closed her eyes for long enough that Dorabella was thinking about throwing a cup of water on her to wake her back up
"Thank you," said Alessandra
"For what?"
"For telling me what you actually meant," said Alessandra "What the plan is I can see that whatever I do will be for Ender's own good But I' I know is the way the worst girls in school behaved I don't think that will have any good results with Ender Wiggin So even though I would like to do what you say, I have no idea how to do it"
Dorabella went to Alessandra's bed and knelt beside it and kissed her daughter's cheek "My darling girl, all you had to do was ask"
CHAPTER 14
To: smenachSh[email protected]
From: GovDes[email protected]/voy
Subj: As we approach
Dear Dr Menach,
I have adrateful for--your work as I've studied it during the voyage Vitaly Kols beyond admiration--awe and deep friendship are also inadequate words--and while I have not known you as he did, I have seen your accomplishments The fact that I and the thousands of new colonists withconcern, instead of co colony, is owed to all the colonists, of course, but without your solutions for the diseases and protein incompatibilities, it is quite likely ould have come to find no one here at all
Vitaly told overnorship, but I see that you have done so, and governed effectively for nearly five years Thank you for bending your principles and accepting a political job I can assure you that I was nearly as reluctant to take the job o
I ah like you I have served my time as a soldier I hope to find you in place when I arrive, so I can learn fro assimilate four thousand "new colonists" and one thousand "old colonists" so that, within a reasonable period of time, they will simply becitizens of Shakespeare