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She smiles. She says his name.
Ender Wiggin, my precious.
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‘I have been a servant all my life,’ said Wang-mu honestly, ‘but I was always a clumsy one,’ which was not so honest. ‘May I go with your servant and learn from her? I may not be wise enough to learn the ideas of a great philosopher, but perhaps I can learn what I am fit to learn from the servant who is worthy to bring tea to Aimaina Hikari.’
She could see from his hesitation that Hikari knew he had been trumped. But the man was deft. He immediately rose to his feet. ‘You have already taught me a great lesson,’ he said. ‘Now we will all go and watch Kenji prepare the tea. If she will be your teacher, Si Wang-mu, she must also be mine. For how could I bear to know that someone in my house knew a thing that I had not yet learned?’
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This conversation would be up to her, and she sensed that the best way to play with Hikari was to refuse to let him control the game.
‘Very well,’ she said. ‘We will teach you. For when we show you our ignorance, then you will see where we most need your wisdom.’
Hikari looked at Peter for a moment. Then he clapped his hands. A serving woman appeared in a doorway. ‘Tea,’ said Hikari.
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'...but what truly puzzles me is why the two of you should be together.’
‘She found me sexually irresistible,’ said Peter, ‘and I can’t get rid of her.’ Then he grinned his most charming grin.
To Wang-mu’s pleasure, Peter’s Western-style irony left Hikari impassive and unamused, and she could see a blush rising up Peter’s neck.
‘Tell Jane that the only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.’
Of course the Buggers turned out not to have been a threat after all, as Ender himself wrote in his book The Hive Queen, but Ooka defended the mistake because the truth was unknowable at the time Ender’s superiors turned him loose against the enemy. What Ooka said was, ‘Never trade blows with the enemy.’ His idea was that you try never to strike anyone, but when you must, you strike only one blow, but such a harsh one that your enemy can never, never strike back.’
‘So using Ender as an example—’
‘That’s right. Ender’s own actions are being used to justify repeating them against another harmless species.’