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Chapter 11: You Called Me Back from Darkness

"Is there no end to this?
Must it go on and on?
Have I not satisfied
all you could ask
of a woman so weak
and so foolish as I?
When will I hear your sharp voice
in my heart again?
When will I trace
the last line into heaven?"

Chapter 12: Am I Betraying Ender?

"Why do people act as if war and murder were unnatural?
What's unnatural is to go your whole life
without ever raising your hand in violence."

Chapter 13: Death Endes All Surprises

"I can't say taht I've much enjoyed
the work the gods required of me.
My only real pleasure
was my days of schooling,
in those hours between the gods' sharp summonses.
I am gladly at their service, always,
but oh it was so sweet
to learn how wide teh universe could be,
to test myself against my teachers,
and to fail sometimes, without much consequence."

Chapter 14: How They Communicate with Animals

"If only we were wiser or better people,
perhaps the gods would explain to us
the mad, unbearable things they do."

Chapter 15: We're Giving You a Second Chance

"When I was a little girl, I used to believe
that if I could please the gods well enough,
they woud go back and do my life over,
and this time they would not take
my mother away from me."

Chapter 16: How Do You Know They Aren't Quivering In Terror?

"O Gods! You are unjust!
My mother and father
deserved to have
a better child
than me!"

Chapter 17: The Road Goes On Without Him Now

"I once heard a tale of a man
who split himself in two.
The one part never changed at all;
the other grew and grew.
The changeless part was always true,
The growing part was always new,
And I wondered, when teh tale was through,
Which part was me, and which was you."