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"My God!" someone shouted. Bonzo's friends leaped to turn off the water. Ender slowly rose to his feet.Someone thrust his towel at him. It was Dink. "Come on out of here," Dink said. He led Ender away. Behindthem they heard the heavy clatter of adults running down a ladderway. Now the teachers would come. Themedical staff. To dress the wounds of Ender's enemy. Where were they before the fight, when there might havebeen no wounds at all?There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, noone would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause painis the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subjectto those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.Dink led him to his room, made him lie on the bed. "Are you hurt anywhere?" he asked,Ender shook his head."You took him apart. I thought you were dead meat, the way he grabbed you. But you took him apart. If he'dstood up longer, you would've killed him.""He meant to kill me.""I know it. I know him. Nobody hates like Bonzo. But not anymore. If they don't ice him for this and send himhome, he'll never look you in the eye again. You or anybody. He had twenty centimeters on you, and you madehim look like a crippled cow standing there chewing her cud."All Ender could see, though, was the way Bonzo looked as Ender kicked upward into his groin. The empty,dead look in his eyes. He was already finished then. Already unconscious. His eyes were open, but he wasn'tthinking or moving anymore, just that dead, stupid look on his lace, that terrible look, the way Stilson lookedwhen I finished with him."They'll ice him, though," Dink said. "Everybody knows he started it. I saw them get up and leave the第 222 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网