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<The broken one ...>
"And instead of being linked to that one computer, linked to thousands and thousands of them, through the ansible links between worlds."
<This could be. It was alive. It could grow. The way we grow when we make more workers. All this time. Now that you mention it, we're sure it must still be there because we're still linked to you, and it was only through that pattern that we connected with you. The connection is very strong now-- that's part of what it is, the link between us and you. We thought the connection grew stronger because we knew you better. But maybe it also grew stronger because the bridge was growing.>
"And I always thought-- Jane and I always thought that she was-- that she had somehow come to exist in the ansible connections between worlds. That's probably where she feels herself, the place that feels like the center of her-- body, I was going to say."
<We're trying to feel whether the bridge between us is still there. Hard to feel it.>
"Like trying to find a particular muscle that you've been using all your life but never by itself." <Interesting comparison. We don't see the connection but no, now we see it.>
"The comparison?"
<The bridge. Very big. The pattern of it is too big. We can't grasp it anymore. Very big. Memory-- very confusing. Much harder than finding you the first time-- very confusing. Getting lost. We can't hold it in our mind anymore. >
"Jane," whispered Ender. "You're a big girl now."
Jane's voice came in answer: "You're cheating, Ender. I can't hear what she's saying to you. I can only feel your heart pounding and your rapid breathing."
<Jane. We've seen this name in your mind many times. But the bridge wasn't a person with a face- ->
"Neither is Jane."
<We see a face in your mind when you think of this name. We still see it. Always we thought it was a person. But now-->
"She's the bridge. You made her."
<Called her. You made the pattern. She possessed it. What she is, this Jane, this bridge, she began with the pattern we discovered in you and the Fantasy Game, yes, but she has imagined herself to