- "Come on! You're Ender Wiggin. Don't tell me what eleven-year-old kids can do!"
- — Ender's Game, page 222
Abra Tolo was a mechanic on the colony planet of Shakespeare.[2] He was first introduced in Ender's Game.
History[]
Ender in Exile[]
Abra enjoyed building things and discovering how things worked. Instead of playing with other children his age, Abra spent his time working with the old Formic machines. He admired Ender Wiggin, the governor of Shakespeare, and spent a lot of time following him.[2]
Abra and Ender stumble upon the Fairyland construct.
In 43 AX when he was 11, Abra went with Ender to find a place where an arriving colony ship could land and colonize. During their travels, they came across the Formic's recreation of the Mind Game's "Fairyland". Ender knew what this was and meant, and briefly told Abra of its implications. Abra was concerned that this was a trap, and the Formics had made it in order to get back at him for killing off their species. Ender disregarded this and went into the tower where he had seen his brother Peter in the game. He told Abra to stay outside, and go get help if he did not come out for several hours. Hours later, he emerged later carrying a bundle that contained a Hive Queen cocoon, although Abra did not know it. Abra asked Ender what he had found, to which Ender only stated said that the colony could not be built here. Abra and Ender went off in search of another colony location for the coming ship. Five days later, they found another site. When Abra pressed Ender about what he had found, he only said that he had found the answer.[2]
Some time later, Abra worked with Ender to create a currency for the planet. Abra figured out how to adapt an oil press to make a coin stamper, and one of the chemists came up with an alloy that would not shed gold as the coins passed from hand to hand. The smallest denomination coin had a picture of Vitaly Kolmogorov on it, and the other coin had a picture of Sel Menach. Instead of calling the coins "fives" and "ones," they became "sels" and "vits".[2]
Years later, in 62 AX when Ender was at the Ganges colony, he told his sister Valentine to deliver the Hive Queen to Abra on Shakespeare if she did not hear its voice in her mind.[2]
Personality[]
Trivia[]
- At the age of 11, Abra was as old as Ender was when he won the Third Formic War.[2]