I don't want to understand you," said Peter. "I want to accomplish my task by exploiting this brilliant intelligence you're supposed to have - even if you believe that people who squat are somehow 'closer to the earth' than people who remain upright." "I was talking about the person closest to you: Ender," she said. "He long since got over hating you." "Yeah, yeah, he wrote The Hegemon." "That's right," said Mu. "He created you because he desperately needed someone to hate him."