"Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
~ Orson Scott Card ~












That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

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