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"I can't pretend that we're not able to track you and find you"

"But you can tell the At my request"

"Yes," said Ender "I'll do that"

There was little ned off and Sel went back to bed He slept easily And, as usual, woke just when he wanted to--an hour before dawn

Po aiting for him

"I already said good-bye to Mom and Dad," he said

"Good," said Sel

"Thanks for letting me come"

"Could I have stopped you?"

"Yes," said Po "I won't disobey you, Uncle Sel" All the grandchildren generation called him that

Sel nodded "Good Have you eaten?"

"Yes"

"Then let's go I won't need to eat till noon"

You take a step, then another That's the journey But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a res that you never saw before Things never seen by the eyes of hus And you see with your particular eyes, which were trained to see not just a plant, but this plant, filling this ecological niche, but with this and that difference

And when your eyes have been trained for forty years to be familiar with the patterns of a neorld, then you are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who first saw the world of anih acreatures into fa lines of evolutionary passage from one species to another