[ Bean brushes off the compliment. He doesn't want any high honors. Not after seeing the toll it all took on Ender. He would never see his friend again, because Ender could never return to Earth. If the Porter should have taken any of the Battle School graduates, it should have taken Ender.
Bean is quiet for a moment as he thinks of this, before he deftly changes the subject. ]
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Bean is quiet for a moment as he thinks of this, before he deftly changes the subject. ]
What sort of war were you raised to fight?