安德从来没有对任何人说过这件事,甚至没有对母亲说过,而是把它作为一种神圣的记忆,当他的母亲认为没有人,甚至他,能看到或听到时,她是多么爱他。这就是阿莱送给他的礼物:一份如此神圣的礼物,就连安德也无法理解它的含义。
(Ender had never spoken of that to anyone, not even to Mother, but had kept it as a memory of holiness, of how his mother loved him when she thought that no one, not even he, could see or hear. That was what Alai had given him: a gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed to understand what it meant.)