Maybe Rigg would come to Vadeshex, in the end. Maybe he’d pick some time a few hundred years from now, when Noxon and Deborah had already lived their lives and had their children and grandchildren. Then Rigg could come along, three or four or ten generations later, and see if there was somebody for him, and together they’d make a few facemask-wearing babies. Watch them grow. See who they became. That’s what it was all about, wasn’t it? Those were the paths Rigg liked best.

No matter how twisted his own path might have been, weaving in and out of time, that was what he had always hoped for. Maybe his path could end up that way after all. Time would tell.

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or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events
are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Card, Orson Scott.

Visitors / Orson Scott Card.

p. cm.

Sequel to: Ruins.

Summary: Rigg’s journey comes to an epic and explosive conclusion as everything that has been building up finally comes to pass, and Rigg is forced to put his powers to the test in order to save his world and end the war once and for all.

[1. Science fiction. 2. Psychic ability—Fiction. 3. Time travel—Fiction.

4. Space colonies—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.C1897Vis 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2014027524

ISBN 978-1-4169-9178-6 (hc)

ISBN 978-1-4424-1429-7 (eBook)