Disclaimer: Orson Scott Card's characters, situations, plots, made-up metaphysics, and money.
Required Reading: Entire Ender Quartet: Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind.
Author's Note: At long last, Part Three of my (completely coincidental) Three Introspectives on Ender from People Whose Names Mean Rock. I was very lazy about it until I realized I didn't have much to say and so could amuse myself by making it a drabble. In the voice of Young Peter, post-COTM.
Young Peter's Choice
Since I became the keeper of Ender's aiúa, I have wondered: Is memory bound up with the physical brain, or is some stored in the life-spark? Very powerful memories, like those of Battle School – and Command School? If so, I wonder if I should try to unlock those memories and make them my own. I can see that in Old Valentine's eyes, I am Ender's soul's chance to live without the burden of those memories, that guilt. But perhaps I have a duty to mankind to become, as Ender was, the bearer of humanity's Great Sin – lest it be forgotten.