Children of The Mind

"Children of The Mind" was really a good ending to the quartet of Ender's saga. It concludes everything with such an elegant way. Of course I'm sad Ender died (major spoiler) but at least it's not the cheesy happy ending.

Let me tell you the most beautiful story I know.
A man was given a dog, which he loved very much.
The dog sit with him everyday, but the man couldn't teach it to do anything useful.
The dog would not fetch or point, it would not race or protect or stand watch.
Instead, the dog sat over him and regarded him, always with the same inscrutable expression.
"That's not a dog. It's a wolf.", said the man's wife.
"He alone is faithful to me.", said the man.
And his wife never discussed it with him again.
One day the man took his dog with him into his private airplane.
And as they flew over high winter mountains, the engine failed
and the airplane was torn to shreads among the trees.
The man lay bleeding, his belly torn open by blades of sheared metal,
steam rising from his organs in the cold air,
but all he could think of was his faithful dog,
Was he alive ? Was he hurt ?
Imagine his relief when the dog came padding up
and regarded him with that same steady gaze.
After an hour, the dog nosed the man's gaping abdomen,
then began pulling out intestines and spleen and liver
and gnawing them,
all the while studying the man's face.
"Thank God," said the man.
"At least one of us will not starve."

-The God Whispers of Qing-Jao