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"Can't you please wait?" He wanted to say: Until I'et that specific

"Maybe a while," said Valentine "We'll see"

Ender filled his days noith the business of the new colony, laying the groundwork for their arrival, rown at all four of the villages as well as the new colony site, so that the newcomers could have failed harvests for two, even three years, and there'd still be no hunger "And we'll need money," said Ender "Here where we all know each other, this sort of ad hoc co has worked out But for trade to ell, we need a e"

"Po and I found you the gold bugs," said Sel Menach "So you've got the gold Make coins"

Abra figured out how to adapt an oil press to make a coin stamper, and one of the chemists caold as the coins passed frosters drew a picture of Sel Menach and one of the old woorov Sel insisted that Kolet the cheaper coin, "Because that's the face they'll see the reatest man the smallest denomination"

They practiced using the money, so the prices would be set before the new colonists arrived It was a joke at first "Five chickens don'tthe coins "fives" and "ones," they became "sels" and "vits" "Render unto Sel that which is Sel's, but hang on to Vit" "Sel wise, Vit foolish"

Ender wrestled with trying to set a value for the coins relative to the international dollar of the Hegemony, but Valentine stopped him "Let it find its own value, tied to whatever people eventually pay for whatever it is we eventually export to other worlds" So the currency floated within their own private universe

The first edition of The Hive Queen sold slowly at first, but then faster and faster It was translated into h ale of Coe of Peter's "Free People of Earth"--the propagandistic naovernment

Meanwhile, free copies circulated on the nets, and one day it was included in aeveryone in Miranda about it, and copies were printed out and handed around Ender and Valentine made no comment; when Alessandra pressed a copy on Ender, he accepted it, waited a while, and returned it "Isn't it wonderful?" Alessandra asked

"I think it is, yes," said Ender

"Oh, yes, that analytical voice, that dispassionate attitude"

"What can I say?" said Ender "I am who I am"

"I think this book has changed my life," said Alessandra

"For the better, I hope," said Ender And then, glancing at her swollen belly, he asked, "Changed your life more than that?"

Alessandra smiled "I don't know yet I'll tell you in a year"