Xenocide

The hive queen and Human agree that hope lies in Ender’s mission to travel to Outspace. If the mission succeeds, the hive queen will send out daughter queens but will stay on Lusitania herself.

Han Fei-tzu asks Qing-jao if they should use the virus that will reverse the OCD mutation, and although she says that she is not afraid of the virus, she begs him not to use it because it will provoke the gods to punish him. He plans to release the virus nonetheless and hopes that Qing-jao will listen once the OCD is reversed.

Ender, Miro, and Ela are loaded into a small spacecraft. While spectators see the spaceship disappear, those on the ship feel nothing, but they know they are in Outspace when three other people suddenly appear. Miro appears as his former self, before his brain damage, and his current body dissolves. A young version of Valentine appears, along with a version of Peter at the age when he became Hegemon. Ender unwittingly created them both from patterns he holds in his mind. He argues with Peter, and Ela yells for them to stop so that Ender can help her test the recolada. The recolada virus is viable, so