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Holding the paper, he walked out of his room. Dinner was nearly over, and there were a few people in thecorridor, but no one spoke to him, just watched him, perhaps in awe of what had happened at noon in thebathroom, perhaps because of the forbidding, terrible look on his face. Most of his boys were in the barracks.Ho, Ender. There gonna be a practice tonight?Ender handed the paper to Hot Soup. "Those sons of bitches," he said. "Two at once?""Two armies!" shouted Crazy Tom."They'll just trip over each other," said Bean."I've got to clean up," Ender said. "Get them ready, get everybody together, I'll meet you there, at the gate."He walked out of the barracks. A tumult of conversation rose behind him. He heard Crazy Tom scream, "Twofarteating armies! We'll whip their butts!"The bathroom was empty. All cleaned up. None of the blood that poured from Bonzo's nose into the showerwater. All gone. Nothing bad ever happened here.Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. Allgone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's bloodwater in the morning. All the life gone out of it,but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it wasthat made them let it happen.He dried himself, dressed in his flash suit, and walked to the battleroom. His army was waiting in the corridor,the door still not opened. They watched him in silence as he walked to the front to stand by the blank greyforcefield. Of course they all knew about his fight in the bathroom today; that and their own weariness from thebattle that morning kept them quiet, while the knowledge that they would be facing two armies filled them with第 224 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网