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International Fleet had offered him a starship to travel at relativistic speed, keeping him alive for decades while the people on Earth searched for a cure to his genetic manipulation. Petra insisted on going with him and their children. Bean agreed in the moment, but had second thoughts later.
    They would be together in the immediate future, though. Peter assigned Bean to lead the armies of Rwanda. That nation’s leader, Felix Starman, had requested Bean in exchange for ratifying Peter’s Hegemony Constitution.
    Petra did not stay in Rwanda for long. She learned that Graff had found one of the embryos. It had been born a girl, named Bella, and was carrying Bean’s genetic mutation. She traveled to Lisbon, Portugal, where her daughter lived with the surrogate who’d birthed her.
    It was heartbreaking for Petra to take this child from the family who’d had her for such a short time. Mazer Rackham, who had escorted Petra to Portugal, informed her that the father had lied to his wife. He was sterile, and the eggs they’d tried to fertilize hadn’t worked.
    Petra returned to Rwanda with her daughter, promising to find the rest of the embryos.
    She was sent with Bean and the babies to her home country of Armenia to negotiate the Armenian joining of the Free People of Earth. She and Beandid a good job convincing the Armenian leaders that they would be protected from invasion if they joined.
    While staying at her family home, Petra and her parents spoke about parenthood and shared memories of their past. Petra revealed her plan to go to space with Bean and the children, which was hard for her parents to hear, but they understood. They would just miss them very much.
    While on assignment with Bean, Petra received a phone call from her upset mother: Mazer Rackham had come to the Arkanian home and taken the babies. Petra and Bean raced to the airport where they got on an airplane with Mazer. He had found five of the missing embryos, leaving only one unaccounted for. Four of the new babies did not have Bean’s mutation, one did.
    Airborne, Bean revealed to Petra that he had divorced her and was taking the three babies that had the mutation into space immediately. The world would think he was killed in combat, while Petra would know that he was in space. She was not to accompany him.
    Petra was crushed. She was angry with Bean and Mazer for negotiating this plan without her involvement. She did not plan to remarry, but knew that she would need support to raise her five babies—and perhaps the sixth missing one, if it was ever found.
    Of the new babies that were found, two of the normal ones were named Andrew and Bella to replace the two mutant children who would accompany Bean into space.
    Heartbroken, Petra threw herself into her work with the Free People of Earth (FPE) military. She conducted operations in Moscow for a year, avoiding her children because seeing them would be too hard.
    When she finally finished her work, she returned to her home in Brazil where Elena Delphiki and Peter Wiggin had been taking care of the babies. She was scared to see her children, and was angry that Peter had been caring for them. But they loved Peter.
    Bean had left Petra a short note saying good-bye to her. She was too emotional to read it, learning it existed only after her year away. Peter read it to her, and in the process professed his love for her.
    Petra married Peter, and together they raised the five children she’d had with Bean, and the five they had themselves. Though forever loving Bean, Petra loved Peter, too. She stood by his side as the entire world, save the United States, joined the FPE. When Peter died, at his grave, Petra read the book Ender had written from space about his brother’s life.
    Petra rejoiced, a couple of years later, when she learned that the finalmissing embryo had been found. Ender and Graff had located the boy on a planet called Ganges. He’d believed he was Achilles’s son, but when he learned of his