From: RadaghasteBellini%privado@presidência.br.gov
To: PeterWiggin%private@hegemon.gov
Re: Please consider carefully ( Read more... )

Peter wasn't sure how much of his life he'd spent on helicopters at this point. It had to be a lot; his spine no longer contorted itself into strange pretzel shapes while it was pressed against the uncomfortable seat inside. It had to be permanently pretzel shaped now, instead. The battle scars of a Hegemon, he thought, and snorted to himself ( Read more... )

From: FelixStarman%backdoor@Rwanda.gov.rw
To: PeterWiggin%personal@hegemon.gov
Re: Only one question remains ( Read more... )

From: PeterWiggin%private@hegemon.gov
To: Vlad%lmpaled@gcu.ru.gov
Re: my brother's friends

I'd like to have a chance to talk with you. Face to face. For my brother's sake. On neutral territory.
Peter arrived in St. Petersburg ostensibly to be an observer and consultant at the New Warsaw Pact trade talks that were part of Russia's ongoing effort to ( Read more... )

Another day, another increasingly unhinged - if PR-savvy - Virlomi vid to deal with. Peter had spent most of the night on the phone with worried Russians who didn't want to show that they were worried (or that they respected the office of the Hegemony) but still wanted to work out if Peter had some kind of angle on Virlomi to make her stopAnd ( Read more... )

From: PeterWiggin%private@hegemon.gov
To: SacredCause%OneMan@FreeThai.org
Re: Suriyawong's actions concerning Achilles Flandres ( Read more... )

There was still residual weird of... whatever had been going on with Natalie last week, so today Peter had arranged things around so her schedule was mysteriously clear of all but the most basic, quick-to-finish tasks. And if the Hegemony kitchens were serving some of Natalie's favorite food (or at least, to what extent he'd managed to discern what ( Read more... )

The next morning, they were ushered into a closed van and driven along a route that Peter assumed was convoluted and deceptively long. For all he knew, the Caliph's headquarters was next door to their hotel. But Alai's people knew that without the Caliph there was no unity, and without unity Islam had no strength, so they were taking no chances on ( Read more... )

Peter Wiggin had brought Petra Arkanian with him because she knew Caliph Alai. They had both been in Ender's Jeesh together. And it was Alai who had sheltered her and Bean in the weeks before the Muslim invasion of China-or liberation of Asia, depending on which propaganda mill you shopped at ( Read more... )

Peter, unsentimental as he was, saw no reason to hold a funeral for Achilles. But Bean insisted on at least a graveside service, and he paid for the carving of the monument. Under the name “Achilles de Flandres,” the year of his birth, and the date of his death, the inscription said:

Born crippled in body and spirit ( Read more... )