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" 'Share this dragon,' " Carlotta recited. " 'If you do, lucky end for them and you.' "
"Oh, yeah, dragons always bring a lucky end. I mean, what does that poem actually say? That you'll die lucky? That it'll be lucky for you to end?" Carlotta chuckled.
Bored with his correspondence, Bean kept the nonsense going. "Dragons aren't always lucky. They had to discontinue Dragon Army in Battle School, it was so unlucky. Till they revived it for Ender, and no doubt they gave it to him because people thought it was bad luck and they were trying to stack everything against him."
Then a thought passed through his mind, ever so briefly, but it woke him from his lethargy. "Forward me that picture."
"I bet you already have it on a dozen letters."
"I don't want to search. Send me that one."
"You're still that Lettie person? Haven't you been that one for two weeks now?" "Five days."
It took a few minutes for the message to be routed to him, but when it finally showed up in his mail, he looked closely at the image.
"Why in the world are you paying attention to this?" asked Carlotta. He looked up to see her watching him.
"I don't know. Why are you paying attention to the way I'm paying attention to it?" He grinned at her.
"Because you think it matters. I may not be as smart as you are about most things, but I'm very much smarter than you are about you. I know when you're intrigued."
"Just the juxtaposition of the image of a dragon with the word 'end.' Endings really aren't considered all that lucky. Why wouldn't the person write 'luck will come' or 'lucky fate' or something else? Why 'lucky end'?"
"Why not?"
"End. Ender. Ender's army was Dragon." "Now, that's a little far-fetched."