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"Humor us. You owe us a favor.""I owe you nothing." He'd be a fool to turn them down. "Do as you want." He turned and left. The toon leaderstrotted along with him. One ran ahead and opened his door. They checked the room, made Ender promise to lockit, and left him just before lights out.There was a message on his desk.DON'T BE ALONE. EVER. -- DINKEnder grinned. So Dink was still his friend. Don't worry. They won't do anything to me. I have my army.But in the darkness he did not have his army. He dreamed that night of Stilson, only he saw now how smallStilson was, only six years old, how ridiculous his tough-guy posturing was; and yet in the dream Stilson and hisfriends tied Ender so he couldn't fight back, and then everything that Ender had done to Stilson in life, they did toEnder in the dream. And afterward Ender saw himself babbling like an idiot, trying hard to give orders to hisarmy, but all his words came out as nonsense.He awoke in darkness, and he was afraid. Then he calmed himself by remembering that the teachers obviouslyvalued him, or they wouldn't be putting so much pressure on him; they wouldn't let anything happen to him,nothing bad, anyway. Probably when the older kids attacked him in the battleroom years ago, there were teachersjust outside the room, waiting to see what would happen; if things had got out of hand, they would have steppedin and stopped it. I probably could have sat here and done nothing, and they would have seen to it I came throughall right. They'll push me as hard as they can in the game, but outside the game they'll keep me safe.With that assurance, he slept again, until the door opened softly and the morning's war was left on the floor forhim to find.***第 216 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网