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"I thought that was why you were taking personal attack classes.""You've really been watching me, haven't you?"Dink didn't answer."I don't want to get Rose mad at me. I want to be part of the battles now, I'm tired of sitting out till the end.""Your standings will go down."This time Ender didn't answer."Listen, Ender, as long as you're part of my toon, you're part of the battle."Ender soon learned why. Dink trained his toon independently from the rest of Rat Army, with discipline andvigor; he never consulted with Rose, and only rarely did the whole army maneuver together. It was as if Rosecommanded one army, and Dink commanded a much smaller one that happened to practice in the battleroom atthe same time.Dink started out the first practice by asking Ender to demonstrate his feet-first attack position. The other boysdidn't like it. "How can we attack lying on our backs?" they asked.To Ender's surprise, Dink didn't correct them, didn't say, "You aren't attacking on your back, you're droppingdownward toward them." He had seen what Ender was doing, but he had not understood the orientation that itimplied. It soon became clear to Ender that even though Dink was very, very good, his persistence in holdingonto the corridor gravity orientation instead of thinking of the enemy gate as downward was limiting histhinking.They practiced attacking an enemy-held star. Before trying Ender's feet-first method, they had always gone instanding up, their whole bodies available as a target. Even now, though, they reached the star and then assaulted第 110 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网