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"Why would people want to do soine hi problem It was just absurd

"Leading is a strange thing," said Ender "People see it happening, but they don't have a clue hoorks"

"I know," said Abra "Most people are like that withworse"

"So you understand exactly," said Ender "They don't see what a leader does, they just see how everybody respects a good leader, and they want to have the attention and respect without understanding what you actually have to do to earn it"

"Everybody respects you," said Abra

"And yet I do al," said Ender "I have to learn other people's jobs well enough to help theh work ofthis colony is too easy to be a fulltime job"

"Easy for you," said Abra

"I suppose," said Ender "But then, even when I'overnor Because I' to know people You can't lead people you don't know or at least understand In war, for instance, if you don't knohat your soldiers can do, how can you lead them into battle and hope to succeed? The enemy, too You have to know the enemy"

Abra thought about that as they lay there in the darkness inside the tent He thought about it so long thatdown and talking to the buggers--only the newcoifts with theined it while awake, because he hen he whispered, "Is that why you spend so s?"

It was as if Ender had been thinking about the saive one of those i about? He knew that Abra was still holding to the thread of their prior conversation In fact, Ender sounded sleepy, and Abra wondered if he had been dozing and Abra's voice had woken hi about

"Yes," said Ender "I understood the hive queens well enough to defeat theh to understand why they let me"

"They let you?"

"No, they fought hard against ht thele battle And they knew I had the weapon that could do it A weapon they understood better than we did, because we got it from them

We still don't fully understand the science of it But they ether and waited for old bug larvae To get soht"

"Po says nobody's better at it than you"