Speaker for the Dead Chapter 10 Summary

Children of the Mind

• The epigraph is from the rules for the Children of the Mind. It explains that the Children marry but remain chaste in marriage—their offspring are their ideas.
• Superspeed over to the plot, where Dom Cristao, head of the monastery for the Children of the Mind, is called out of his class by a Dean in order to speak with the bishop about the Speaker, who is causing so much trouble and stirring everything up in his awesome way.
• Dom Cristao's monastic name is a long invocation to love everybody, because he knows he has trouble doing that; he's impatient with stupid people.
• He meets with Navio, the doctor, and the Bishop. Navio tells his story about Ender's threats, and the Bishop gets more and more upset.
• Dom Cristao recommends cooperating with the Speaker since they don't have any other choice, whivh the Bishop is very cranky about, though his crankypants do him no good.
• Dom Cristao says that the Filhes (Children) can answer the Speaker's questions or find out the answers and then nobody else will have to deal with him. The Bishop is still cranky, but he's got no choice.
• Cut to Ender wandering around. Jane is taunting him but he can't respond because he's out in public and people will think he's a devil if his lips move for no reason.
• He's walking through the priest's area and they are all super-hostile.
• He misses Valentine.
• He arrives to the home of the Filhes, and chats with Dom Cristao. They get along.
• Ender is very familiar with the order because he spoke the death of San Angelo, the head of the order.
• He meets Dom Cristao's wife, Dona Crista, the head of the school (we met her back in the first chapter when she was younger, remember), and Ender talks with them about their celibate marriage, which he finds beautiful.
• It reminds him of his celibate relationship with his sister Valentine.
• The monks are touched and say they trust him, which Jane (in his earpiece) says he's accomplished a cynical piece of playacting by mentioning Valentine to gain their trust. Ender thinks this is a rotten thing to say, and—for the first time ever—turns off the earpiece.
• He means to turn it on again quickly, but the monks seem more comfortable with it off, so he doesn't.
• The monks tell him that Novinha feels guilty for Pipo's death, and that they've figured out that she discovered something.
• They recap things we already know about Novinha—guilt, closed up files, guilt, wouldn't marry Libo, guilt. (Ender's Game has lots of guilt too, just so you know.)
• Oh, and speaking of guilt, Ender feels very guilty for turning the jewel off and shutting Jane out, even though she was being a complete jerk.
• When he's alone he turns the jewel back on, but Jane doesn't speak to him, and then he sends an ansible message out saying Jane, I love you.