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"A life."
She saw the pain on his face and at once regretted causing it. But it was a reflexive regret-- she had been trained from childhood up to be sorry when she gave offense, no matter how richly it was deserved.
"Ouch," said Peter, as if his pain were a joke.
Wang-mu showed no mercy-- she was not a servant now. "You're so proud of knowing more than me, but everything you know is either what Ender put in your head or what Jane whispers in your ear. I have no Jane, I had no Ender. Everything I know, I learned the hard way. I lived through it. So please don't treat me with contempt again. If I have any value on this expedition, it will come from my knowing everything you know-- because everything you know, I can be taught, but what I know, you can never learn."
The joking was over. Peter's face reddened with anger. "How ... who ..."
"How dare I," said Wang-mu, echoing the phrases she assumed he had begun. "Who do I think I am."
"I didn't say that," said Peter softly, turning away.
"I'm not staying in my place, am I?" she asked. "Han Fei-tzu taught me about Peter Wiggin. The original, not the copy. How he made his sister Valentine take part in his conspiracy to seize the hegemony of Earth. How he made her write all of the Demosthenes material-- rabble-rousing demagoguery-- while he wrote all the Locke material, the lofty, analytical ideas. But the low demagoguery came from him."
"So did the lofty ideas," said Peter.
"Exactly," said Wang-mu. "What never came from him, what came only from Valentine, was something he never saw or valued. A human soul."
"Han Fei-tzu said that?"
"Yes."
"Then he's an ass," said Peter. "Because Peter had as much of a human soul as Valentine had." He stepped toward her, looming. "I'm the one without a soul, Wang-mu."
For a moment she was afraid of him. How did she know what violence had been created in him? What dark rage in Ender's aiua might find expression through this surrogate he had created?
But Peter did not strike a blow. Perhaps it was not necessary.