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"Pretty ugly situation," said Jane in his ear.
Yes, said Miro silently.
"Father Estevao shouldn't go alone," she said. "The pequeninos used to be devastatingly effective warriors. They haven't forgotten how."
So tell Ender, said Miro. I don't have any power here.
"Bravely spoken, my hero," said Jane. "I'll talk to Ender while you wait around here for your miracle."
Miro sighed and walked back down the hill and through the gate.
Chapter 9 -- PINEHEAD
<I've been talking to Ender and his sister, Valentine. She's a historian.>
<Explain this.>
<She searches through the books to find out the stories of humans, and then writes stories about what she finds and gives them to all the other humans.>
<If the stories are already written down, why does she write them again?>
<Because they aren't well understood. She helps people understand them.>
<If the people closer to that time didn't understand them, how can she, coming later, understand them better?>
<I asked this myself, and Valentine said that she doesn't always understand them better. But the old writers understood what the stories meant to the people of their time, and she understands what the stories mean to people of her time.>
<So the story changes.>
<Yes.>
<And yet each time they still think of the story as a true memory?>
<Valentine explained something about some stories being true and others being truthful. I didn't understand any of it.>