So, last Christmas (cue the music) or rather, this Christmas, I was sitting at home bored and twiddling my thumbs when suddenly an idea occurred to me:

I wanted to write a new, FH-canon storyline into 'Speaker for the Dead'. Don't ask me why I thought that was a good idea. I still don't. Buuut I started it, got carried away, and now here it is: 22,000 words of AU Speaker for the Dead. Because it still follows the original story to a point, some of the prose within is ganked word-for-word from the book - I'll try to denote this with a different shade of text color where possible. In other places, it's way too interwoven with my own stuff to work (and even some of the shaded stuff isn't 100% Orson. Watch me be anal about it anyway.)

ANYWAY.

Don't expect much more than way too many words of me attempting to write a far superior book - which you all should read - but I hope you enjoy it anyway!

Title: Speak, Rewind
Warning: Some gore within.
Rating: PG-13.
Fandom: Fandom High + Ender's Game/Speaker for the Dead
Much thanks to: dollpocalypse and mouthy_merc for cheerleading, and the lovely nookiepowered for giving it a thorough beta'ing!
Dedicated to: the lovely momslilassassin, from whom I've withheld this fic cruelly until it was done.

Spoilers for the entirety of Speaker for the Dead, obviously.

( 'We're here.' )

Continued in part two!