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She smiles. She says his name.
Ender Wiggin, my precious.
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‘So we’re going to sew our way through space?’
‘In a way. The shortest distance between two points isn’t necessarily a line. It comes from something Andrew learned from the Hive Queen. How they call some kind of creature from an alternate space-time when they create a new Hive Queen. Grego jumped on that as proof that there was a real nonreal space. Don’t ask me what he means by that. I make bricks for a living.’
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‘I never found this because I always started with the wrong assumptions,’ she said. ‘I imagined my center to be out in space somewhere. I should have guessed I was inside you from the fact that even when I was furious with you, I had to come back to you to be at peace.’
<The bridge. Very big. The pattern of it is too big. We can’t grasp it anymore. Very big. Memory – very confusing. Much harder than finding you the first time – very confusing. Getting lost. We can’t hold it in our mind anymore.>
‘Jane,’ whispered Ender. ‘You’re a big girl now.’
Jane’s voice came in answer: ‘You’re cheating, Ender. I can’t hear what she’s saying to you. I can only feel your heart pounding and your rapid breathing.’
<Jane. We’ve seen this name in your mind many times. But the bridge wasn’t a person with a face—>
‘Neither is Jane.’
<We see a face in your mind when you think of this name. We still see it. Always we thought it was a person. But now—>
‘She’s the bridge. You made her.’
<Called her. You made the pattern. She possessed it. What she is, this Jane, this bridge? She began with the pattern we discovered in you and the fantasy game, yes, but she has imagined herself to be much larger. She must have been a very strong and powerful – philote, if your word is the right name – to be able to change her own pattern and still remember to be herself.>
‘You reached out across the lightyears and found me because I was looking for you. And then you found a pattern and called a creature from another space who grasped the pattern and possessed it and became Jane. All of this instantaneously. Faster than light.’
‘But when a philote takes possession of a new Hive Queen, it controls it, Queen-body and worker-bodies. Why didn’t this bridge you made take control of me?’
<Do you think we didn’t try?>
‘Why didn’t it work?’
<You weren’t capable of letting a pattern like that control you. You could willingly become part of a pattern that was real and alive, but you couldn’t be controlled by it. You couldn’t even be destroyed by it. And there was so much of you in the pattern that we couldn’t even control it ourselves. Too strange for us.>
Jane..
‘The fantasy game,’ said Ender. ‘You made a pattern out of the fantasy game.’
<We imagined the same thing you were imagining. All of us together. Calling. It was very complicated and strange, but much simpler than anything else we found in you. Since then we know – very few humans are capable of concentrating the way you concentrated on that game. And we’ve seen no other computer program that responded to a human the way that game responded to you. It was yearning, too. Cycling over and over, trying to find something to make for you.>
‘And when you called …’
<It came. The bridge we needed...>