And while Peter has mellowed into something more of a "builder," Ender and Valentine have become somewhat more like Peter was. Moreover, Valentine knows that Ender has too much ambition to really want to spend the rest of his life in obscure peace.
She reminds him of Mazer Rackham 's fame. But Ender is content to leave the fame to Peter. At this point Valentine changes the argument: "I'm talking about my life, you self-centered little bastard. Valentine realizes that she has found Ender's "weakest place and stabbed him there Ender finally says that his fear is that he "can't beat him," that Ender will not actually be able to save everyone.
Valentine declares that if Ender cannot do it, nobody can. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault. You killed us all. When Valentine notes that a victory will also be a victory over Peter, he tells her, "I don't want to beat Peter I want him to love me. Graff tells Ender that they isolate their commanders so that they think in certain ways, but the soldiers often forget why Earth is important enough to save.
This is why Ender has had three months of landside leave. Graff adds that he will be staying with Ender, and Ender realizes that Graff's sole purpose now is to see Ender through his command.
When their ship arrives at the Inter-Planetary Launch, Graff commandeers another ship to take them to Command School on the planet Eros, a previously bugger-inhabited planet that is now a secret base. During the three-month flight to Eros, Graff and Ender talk about everything from Command School to Earth, to astronomy, physics, and most importantly the buggers, although Graff does not know much about them. They speak mind to mind, instantaneously. This ability taught the humans that it was possible, and they thus built a machine called an ansible which, according to Graff, means that "ships could talk to each other even when they're across the galaxy.
En route to attack the buggers' homeworlds, they all will be at their targets within the next five years and within a couple of months of each other. Ender is to be the battle commander who will know "what the hell to do with those ships when they get there. On Eros, Ender asks Graff why he thinks that they are fighting the buggers. Graff says that he thinks that since the buggers have no need for language due to their communication style, the humans and the buggers could never understand each other or communicate.
Graff adds that no one knows for sure if the buggers might attack again, but if somebody has to be destroyed, they want it to be the buggers, not humankind. Valentine meets her brother again. Ender has been on earth for two months and has no intentions of returning to space. He does not want to fight, and he is sick of games. They talk for a long time, and Valentine learns why Ender is tired of fighting.
He learns his enemies so well that he almost loves them, and then he destroys them. Ender does not want to destroy. He also knows that he cannot win all the battles.
Valentine thinks he means that he will never be able to beat Peter, but she does not understand that he only wants Peter to love him. Valentine appeals to Ender, for her sake, to go save mankind. She leaves hating Graff for having forced her to convince her brother to return to where he does not want to go.
Graff explains to Ender that he was here to remember what he was fighting for, and he knows that Ender will hate him for using Valentine and the earth to make him return, but insists that his feelings for his sister are what really matter. Ender thinks briefly that Graff may actually care for him but decides that everything is calculation with Graff.
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Topic Tracking: Anger. Topic Tracking: Excellence. Topic Tracking: Games. Topic Tracking: Isolation. Chapter 1: Third. Chapter 2: Peter. Chapter 3: Graff. Chapter 4: Launch.
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