post #10

Cooper Feltes
Pages 496-548

In these pages, Novihna finally returned home to her house. She is told of the arrival of the Speaker by her children. For some reason which the reader has not yet discovered, Novihna cancelled her call for a Speaker many years ago. She was not happy to see that he had arrived so soon. Ender was speaking, all the while, to one of the children in the back room, but comes out to greet the reluctant Novihna. Novihna believes that he should leave and not come back, to the children's utter dismay, having known him for only a few hours, yet has gotten to "know them more than [Novihna does]." Novihna is then told of the story that the family just experienced, and, though she doesn't believe in the power of the Speaker, is moved by his ability to learn more of her family in a few hours, than she had in years.