By Orson Scott Card
High above the planet concord, the Oversoul watches. Its job, programmed such a lot of millennia in the past, is to protect the human cost in this planet--to guard this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. to guard them, such a lot of all, from themselves.
The Oversoul has performed its activity good. there's no struggle on concord. There aren't any guns of mass destruction. there is not any know-how which can result in guns of conflict. by means of keep an eye on of the knowledge banks, and sophisticated interference within the very strategies of the folk, the substitute intelligence has fulfilled its mission.
But now there's a challenge. In orbit, the Oversoul realizes that it has misplaced entry to a couple of its reminiscence banks, and a few of its strength structures are failing. And on this planet, males are commencing to take into consideration strength, wealth, and conquest.
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Now, notwithstanding, he may possibly see that they really have been raging. yet why at Nafai? “Rash used to be the one that betrayed us,” acknowledged Nafai. instantly they became again to him. “Is that so? ” acknowledged Elemak. “Didn’t I inform you that i used to be going to do the entire speaking? i may have had the Index for 1 / 4 of what we had, yet no, you had to—” “You have been giving up! ” cried Nafai. “You have been strolling out! ” Elemak roared in fury, pulled Nafai up by means of the blouse, lifting him partway from the floor. “Half of bargaining is strolling out, you idiot! Do you think that I didn’t recognize what i used to be doing? I, who've bargained in international lands and made nice revenue on few goods—why couldn’t you belief me to understand what i used to be doing? All you’ve ever bargained for is some silly myachiks out there, little boy. ” “I didn’t know,” stated Nafai. Elemak threw him down onto the floor. Nafai’s elbows have been scraped, and his head struck the stones not easy adequate that it harm him. with no intending to, he cried out. “Leave him on my own, you coward,” acknowledged Issib. “Calling me a coward? ” acknowledged Elemak. “Gaballufix used to be going to have our funds it doesn't matter what we did. He already had Rash on his facet. ” “So now you’re the specialist on what may have happened,” stated Elemak. “Sitting in your throne, judging us! ” cried Mebbekew. “You imagine Nafai’s so blameless, what approximately you! You’re the person who obtained the cash out of Father’s debts! ” Nafai stood up. He didn’t just like the method they have been menacing Issib. It was once something for them to take out their fury on him, yet anything else back after they appeared approximately to harm Issya. “I’m sorry,” acknowledged Nafai. there has been not anything for it yet to take the blame, and their anger. “I didn’t comprehend, and that i must have stored my mouth close. I’m sorry. ” “What is sorry? ” stated Elemak. “How again and again have you ever acknowledged sorry while it was once too past due to undo the implications? You by no means examine something, Nafai. Father by no means taught you. His little child, priceless Rasa’s little boy, who may well do no mistaken. good, it’s time you discovered the teachings that Father must have taught you years in the past. ” Elemak pulled one of many rods out of a pack body leaning opposed to the canyon wall. It was once designed to hold heavy so much at the again of a camel; it had a few flex to it, and it wasn’t extraordinarily heavy, however it used to be reliable and lengthy. Nafai knew right now what Elemak meant. “You haven't any correct to the touch me,” stated Nafai. “No, not anyone has the best to the touch you,” acknowledged Mebbekew. “Sacred Nafai, Father’s jewel-eyed boy, not anyone can contact him. He can contact us, in fact. He can lose our inheritance for us, yet not anyone can contact him. ” “It may by no means were your inheritance, anyway,” Nafai acknowledged to Mebbekew. “It used to be regularly for Elemak. ” one other inspiration got here into Nafai’s brain, taking into account who might have acquired the inheritance. He knew ahead of he stated it that it wasn’t the wisest factor to assert, while Elemak and Mebbekew have been already in a fury. yet he acknowledged it besides. “When it involves what you misplaced, you either deserved to be disinherited besides, plotting opposed to Father. ” “That is a lie,” stated Mebbekew.