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They spoke to him through his helmet radio and told him that someone was waiting to see him as soon as hecould come in. Ender couldn't think of anyone he wanted to see, and so he didn't hurry. He finished installing theshield for the ship's ansible and then hooked his way across the face of the ship and pulled himself up into theairlock.She was waiting for him outside the changing room. For a moment he was annoyed that they would let acolonist come to bother him here, where he came to be alone; then he looked again, and realized that if the youngwoman were a little girl, he would know her."Valentine," he said."Hi, Ender.""What are you doing here?""Demosthenes retired. Now I'm going with the first colony.""It's fifty years to get there--""Only two years if you're aboard the ship.""But if you ever came back, everybody you knew on Earth would be dead--""That was what I had in mind. I was hoping, though, that someone I knew on Eros might come with me."I don't want to go to a world we stole from the buggers. I just want to go home.""Ender, you're never going back to Earth. I saw to that before I left."第 326 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网