Though she has traveled with him for thousands of years, his sister Valentine is now pregnant and settled. Emotionally distraught, she then makes a call for a Speaker for the Dead for Pipo.Īndrew "Ender" Wiggin, living innocuously on the planet Trondheim, responds to Novinha's call. Novinha, having fallen in love with Libo but fearing that he will find out from her files what led to Pipo's death, marries another colonist, Marcos Ribeira, so as to lock her files from being opened, under colony law. As Pipo's death appears unprovoked, the Pequeninos are now considered a threat by the Starways Congress and restrictions on studying them are tightened. Hours later, Libo and Novinha find Pipo's body cut open just as Rooter's had been, but with no sapling planted. When Pipo learns of this, he suddenly has an insight, and before he tells the others, races off to talk to the Pequeninos. After accidentally sharing information about human genders with a male Pequenino named Rooter, the scientists find Rooter's body eviscerated, a sapling planted within it, and guess this may be a torturous sacrificial ritual.Ī few years later, Novinha discovers that every lifeform on Lusitania carries the Descolada virus which, though lethal to humans, appears to serve a beneficial purpose to native lifeforms. They allow Novinha to join their science team as the colony's only xenobiologist, after she manages to pass the test at age thirteen. Further information: List of Ender's Game charactersĮight years after the Descolada virus is cured, Xenologer Pipo and his thirteen-year-old son and apprentice Libo have developed a friendship with the Pequeninos.
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