"I definitely don't care to start any wars," she says, shaking her head. "I can be useful, I think, but probably not enough to offset an entire war, at least not with high confidence and on a short time frame. Anyway, when I was eight I didn't want to leave right then. The constellation was a fine place to grow up, I just didn't want to stay forever or take the traditional way out. And I wasn't sure I'd be able to find a third option at all, since everyone invested in making sure it was one of the two is about as smart as I am and they're considerably better connected and more numerous. I hedged my bets a little at least in terms of what sort of education I collected and in the end I had Lisbet's help."