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And right now you think you're down. "They want me to encourage you to go on with your studies.""They aren't studies, they're games. All games, from beginning to end, only they change the rules wheneverthey feel like it." He held up a limp hand. "See the strings?""But you can use them, too.""Only if they want to be used. Only if they think they're using you. No, it's too hard, I don't want to playanymore. Just when I start to be happy, just when I think I can handle things, they stick in anothet knife. I keephaving nightmares, now that I'm here. I dream I'm in the battleroom, only instead of being weightless, they'replaying games with gravity. They keep changing its direction. So I never end up on the wall I launched for. Inever end up where I meant to go. And I keep pleading with them just to let me get to the door, and they won't letme out, they keep sucking me back in."She heard the anger in his voice and assumed it was directed at her. "I suppose that's what I'm here for. To suckyou back in.""I didn't want to see you.""They told me.""I was afraid that I'd still love you.""I hoped that you would.""My fear, your wish -- both granted.""Ender, it really is true. We may be young, but we're not powerless. We play by their rules long enough, and itbecomes our game." She giggled. "I'm on a presidential commission. Peter is so angry."第 249 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网