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"I can't," said Val. "The worker-- she let go of my hand."
"You mean we're stranded here?" asked Miro.
Val's answer was silence. They held hands tightly in the dark, not daring to step in any direction. <I can't do the thing you want me to do.>
"When I was here before," said Miro, "you told us how all the hive queens made a web to trap Ender, only they couldn't, so they made a bridge, they drew an aiua from Outside and made a bridge out of it and used it to speak to Ender through his mind, through the fantasy game that he played on the computers in the Battle School. You did that once-- you called an aiua from Outside. Why can't you find that same aiua and put it somewhere else? Link it to something else?"
<The bridge was part of ourselves. Partly ourselves. We were calling to this aiua the way we call for aiuas to make new hive queens. This is something completely different. That ancient bridge is now a full self, not some wandering, starving singleton desperate for connection.>
"All you're saying is that it's something new. Something you don't know how to do. Not that it can't be done."
<She doesn't want you to do it. We can't do it if she doesn't want it to happen.> "So you can stop me," Miro murmured to Val.
"She's not talking about me," Val answered.
<Jane doesn't want to steal someone else's body.>
"It's Ender's. He has two others. This is a spare. He doesn't even want it himself." <We can't. We won't. Go away.>
"We can't go away in the dark," said Miro.
Miro felt Val pull her hand away from him.
"No!" he cried. "Don't let go!"
<What are you doing?>
Miro knew the question was not directed toward him. <Where are you going? It's dangerous in the dark.>