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"I don't ate mother who raised you"

"So you're trying to getme exactly the way Virlomi did," said Achilles "Well it won't work" Yet as he said it, it orking; and he illing to have the wrath rise within hioaded hi, so that when Ender killed him everyone who saw the vids would know that it wasn't really self-defense at all They'd realize it had never been self-defense

"I knew your father best of all the kids in Battle School He was better than I was--did you know that? All of the jeesh knew it--he was quicker and smarter But he alas loyal to me At the last moment, when it all looked so hopeless, he knehat to do He virtually told enerous He was truly great It broke my heart to learn how his body betrayed hi you"

"Suriyawong betrayed him," said Achilles "Julian Delphiki killed him"

"And your ot put into an army whose co I relied on her, I trusted her, and within the limitations of a human body, she never let me down When I heard that she and your father had married, it made me so happy But then your father died, and eventually she married my brother"

Comprehension al Petra Arkanian is my mother? Are you insane? She was the one that first set the traps forhim--"

"Coe of sixteen you've recognized that your surrogate mother is insane"

"She's ht, and weakly, he said, "And she's not insane"

This is not going right What is he saying? What kind of game is this?

"You look exactly like them More like your father than like your mother When I see you, I see my dear friend Bean"

"Julian Delphiki is not e His heart was pounding This was exactly hoas supposed to go

Except for one thing His feet were rooted to the ground He wasn't attacking Ender Wiggin He was just standing there and taking it

It was in thatbehind the co? Are you insane?"

"There's a lot of that going around," said Ender

"Get away from here," she said "He's not worth it"