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"See what I'm becoming, Val?" he said softly. "Even you are afraid of me." And he touched her cheek so gentlythat she wanted to cry. Like the touch of his soft baby hand when he was still an infant. She remembered that, thetouch of his soft and innocent hand on her cheek."I'm not," she said, and in that moment it was true."You should be."No. I shouldn't. "You're going to shrivel up if you stay in the water. Also, the sharks might get you.He smiled. "The sharks learned to leave me alone a long time ago." But he pulled himself onto the raft, bringinga wash of water across it as it tipped. It was cold on Valentine's back."Ender, Peter's going to do it. He's smart enough to take the time it takes, but he's going to win his way intopower -- if not right now, then later. I'm not sure yet whether that'll be a good thing or a bad thing. Peter can becruel, but he knows the getting and keeping of power, and there are signs that once the bugger war is over, andmaybe even before it ends, the world will collapse into chaos again. The Warsaw Pact was on its way tohegemony before the First Invasion. If they try for it afterward--""So even Peter might be a better alternative.""You've been discovering some of the destroyer in yourself, Ender. Well, so have I. Peter didn't have amonopoly on that, whatever the testers thought. And Peter has some of the builder in him. He isn't kind, but hedoesn't break every good thing he sees anymore. Once you realize that power will always end up with the sort ofpeople who crave it, I think that there are worse people who could have it than Peter.""With that strong a recommendation, I could vote for him myself.""Sometimes it seems absolutely silly. A fourteen-year-old boy and his kid sister plotting to take over theworld." She tried to laugh. It wasn't funny. "We aren't just ordinary children, are we. None of us."第 252 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网