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"I'ht I could Perhaps he only wanted you to have a resource to draw on, in case I had some ideas Have they been a problem?"

"The mother was your ordinary reclusive paranoid," said Virlomi "But she worked hard, and if she see perverse about their relationship--she never tried to keep him in her bed, for instance, and she never bathed hins He was such a tiny baby Al Shockingly young"

"And he stayed srowing at an ordinary pace and then didn't stop I iiant now"

"Two full ," said Virlomi "How did you know this?"

"Because of who his parents are"

Virloasped "Graff knoho the real father is And he didn't tell me Hoas I supposed to deal with this situation if he didn't give me all the information?"

"Forgiveyou," said Ender, "but you were not widely trusted at the time"

"No," she said "But I thought if he one"

Ender wondered if, indeed, Graff was gone He wasn't on any of the registries he could access--but he didn't have ansible privileges like those he'd had before, as a new governor co to his colony There were deep searches he siiven time to pursue

"Graff didn't want to leave you without knowledge But he gave it to e how much to tell you"

"So you don't trust me either?" Her voice sounded jocular, but there was pain under it

"I don't know you," said Ender "You ainst my friends You liberated your country froeful invader yourself I don't knohat to do with this information Let me make up my mind as I come to know you"

Valentine spoke up for the first tis "What is it that has happened that ?"

Virlo struggle between me and Randall Firth"

"Isn't he still a child?"