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"I'm assuming that the message deliberately leaves out letters as much as possible, especially vowels, so it won't look like Common."
"So how will you know when you've decoded it?" "When it makes sense."
"It's bedtime. I know, you're not sleeping till you've solved it." He barely noticed that she moved away from behind him. He was busy trying the other doubled letter. This time he had a more complicated job, because the letters before and after the double pair were different. It meant far more combinations to try, and being able to eliminate g, i, n, and w didn't speed up the process all that much.
Again, there were quite a few readings that he saved-more than before-but nothing rang a bell until he got to 'Jees." The word that Ender's companions in the final battle used for themselves. "Jeesh." Could it be? It was definitely a word that might be used as a flag.
h--n--jeesh-g-_en--s-ns--n ---- si --- n --- s--g -n-n-wiggin ---
If those twenty-seven letters were right, then he had only thirty left to solve. He rubbed his eyes, sighed, and set to work.
It was noon when the smell of oranges woke him. Sister Carlotta was peeling a mexerica orange. "People are eating these things on the street and spitting the pulp on the sidewalk. You can't chew it up enough to swallow it. But the juice is the best orange you'll ever taste in your life."
Bean got out of bed and took the segment she offered him. She was right. She handed him a bowl to spit the pulp into. "Good breakfast," said Bean.
"Lunch," she said. She held up a paper. "I take it you consider this to be a solution?" It was what he had printed out before going to bed.
hlpndrjeeshtgdrenrusbnstun6rmysiz4Ontrysbtg bnfndwigginptr
"Oh," said Bean. "I didn't print out the one with the word breaks." Putting another mexerica segment in his mouth, Bean padded on bare feet to the computer, called up the right file, and printed it. He brought it back, handed it to Carlotta, spat out pulp, and took his own mexerica from her shopping bag and began peeling.
"Bean," she said. "I'm a normal mortal. I get 'help' and is this 'Ender'?" Bean took the paper from her.























































































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