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command of the Battle School, as of this afternoon. I have been reassigned to other duties."Ender did not ask him what they were.Graff strapped himself into a seat across the aisle from him. There was only one other passenger, a quiet man incivilian clothes who was introduced as General Pace. Pace was carrying a briefcase, but carried no more luggagethan Ender did. Somehow that was comforting to Ender, that Graff also came away empty.Ender spoke only once on the voyage home. "Why are we going home?" he asked. "I thought Command Schoolwas in the asteroids somewhere.""It is," said Graff. "But the Battle School has no facilities for docking long-range ships. So you get a shortlandside leave."Ender wanted to ask if that meant he could see his family. But suddenly, at the thought that it might be possible,he was afraid, and so he didn't ask. Just closed his eyes and tried to sleep. Behind him, General Pace wasstudying him; for what purpose, Ender could not guess.It was a hot summer afternoon in Florida when they landed. Ender had been so long without sunlight that thelight nearly blinded him, He squinted and sneezed and wanted to get back indoors. Everything was far away andflat; the ground, lacking the upward curve of Battle School floors, seemed instead to fall away, so that on levelground Ender felt as though he were on a pinnacle. The pull of real gravity felt different and he scuffed his feetwhen he walked. He hated it. He wanted to go back home, back to the Battle School, the only place in theuniverse where he belonged.***"Arrested?""Well, it's a natural thought. General Pace is the head of the military police. There *was* a death in the BattleSchool."第 236 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网