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The Arms Hotel; Wednesday [ 06/10].

Gunther had seemed all too eager to help Valentine with her German today, even though Valentine had tried to explain to him that she hadn't planned on working on her German today. However, there weren't any sausages involved today, so Valentine supposed she should take the help while it was relatively lacking in traumatic experiences. But Valentine started to realize one problem with his correcting her grammar and spelling every five seconds, and that was that shouldn't he be, you know, cooking and doing his job right now?

Gunther said he had it covered.

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"There is a distinct lack of predictable day-to-day routine on the island," Ender noted. He was drawing it out a little bit as he considered how to best breach this topic - faking anonymity in terms of the parties involved would be an insult to Val's intelligence.

And so was expecting her to believe that he meant that. Valentine quirked an eyebrow. "Your brand of predictable day-to-day involves a lot less talking to other people, doesn't it?"

"I spent most of it talking to my laptop," he said, with the kind of small quirk of his lips that should alert Val to the fact that he knew the jig was up.

Which meant that Ender was getting a wry grin back, one on the edge of an eyeroll. "And did it have anything interesting to say back?"

"Not as of recently," Ender said, shaking his head. "I can't get Ben off my back."

Ah, there was the rub. Valentine would be kind and spare the comments about lovers' quarrels.

"About what?"

"He somehow feels entitled to hearing me wax poetic about my life," Ender said, dryly. "'Poor Ender' is starting to wear on me."

"He probably just worried about you, Ender."

Probably. Valentine, of course, knew better.

"He's worried about himself. I happen to be a good proxy."

"The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive."

"No," he agreed, "But they're unnecessary and annoying, in this case."

Ah, Ender Wiggin's brand of bitching.

"Annoying, yes," Valentine said, "but if they were unnecessary, you wouldn't be wasting your time bitching about them."

"Or evading the topic."

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"I'm not 'bitching'," Ender told her, tilting his head. "Or evading. But you wanted to know what was on my mind."

She hadn't asked, no, but she'd been fairly obvious in implicating.

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"Okay, then," Valentine nodded a little. "If they were unnecessary, you wouldn't be wasting brain space on them. Better?"

"I'm not wasting brain space, either," he said, with a wiggle of his eyebrows. "I'm trying to work out how to convince him that it's really not worth asking."

"Probably would be easier just to tell him," Valentine offered, weaving yet another understatement, all things considered. "People don't just stop caring because someone's tried to convince them not to."

"It's not relevant information."

He shook his head. "Maybe I should just take my distance."

That didn't make it sound like a lover's quarrel at all, Ender.

"It's a pretty small island, Ender," Valentine reminded him.

"I wasn't talking about physical distance."

"Doesn't change the size of things," Valentine said, sighing slightly. "Ender, if Ben's problem now is that you're not open enough, how is closing down more going to help anything?"

"He wants me to be open about things that just aren't important," he reminded Valentine. "Time for him to get a clue."

Valentine was wondering if it wasn't exactly Ben who needed the clue here. It was tough; her heart was feeling for both of them.

"If they just aren't important," she said, "then why does it matter?"

"Ask Ben."

The logical question.

"Maybe I will," Valentine said, eying her brother to see any suggestion of objection in his response, though she really didn't expect anything but affected apathy.

And affected apathy was what she got. "I doubt it'll help," he said, neutrally. "He has his mind made up."

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