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This time Val had grown up enough to know just how much danger the world was in. And she had beenDemosthenes long enough that she didn't hesitate to do her duty. "Where is he?""Down at the boat slip.""Where's the swimming suit?"Ender didn't wave when she walked down the hill toward him, didn't smile when she stepped onto the floatingboat slip. But she knew that he was glad to see her, knew it because of the way his eyes never left her face."You're bigger than I remembered," she said stupidly."You too," he said. "I also remembered that you were beautiful.""Memory does play tricks on us.""No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore. Come on. Let's go out into thelake."She looked at the small raft with misgivings."Don't stand up on it, that's all," he said. He got on by crawling, spiderlike, on toes and fingers. "It's the firstthing I built with my own hands since you and I used to build with blocks. Peter-proof buildings."She laughed. They used to take pleasure in building things that would stand up even when a lot of the obvioussupports had been removed. Peter, in turn, liked to remove a block here or there, so the structure would be fragileenough that the next person to touch it would knock it down. Peter was an ass, but he did provide some focus totheir childhood.第 246 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网