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"When?""When you're ready."Ender showered and dressed. He was finally used to the way civilian clothes fit together, but he still didn't feelright without a uniform or a flash suit. I'll never wear a flash suit again, he thought. That was the Battle Schoolgame, and I'm through with that. He heard the crickets chirping madly in the woods; in the near distance he heardthe crackling sound of a car driving slowly on gravel.What else should he take with him? He had read several of the books in the library. but they belonged to thehouse and he couldn't take them. The only thing he owned was the raft he had made with his own hands. Thatwould stay here, too.The lights were on now in the room where Graff waited. He, too, had changed clothing. He was back touniform.They sat in the back seat of the car together, driving along country roads to come at the airport from the back."Back when the population was growing," said Graff, "they kept this area in woods and farms. Watershed land.The rainfall here starts a lot of rivers flowing, a lot of underground water moving around. The Earth is deep, andright to the heart it's alive, Ender. We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the stillwater near the shore."Ender said nothing."We train our commanders the way we do because that's what it takes -- they have to think in certain ways.They can't be distracted by a lot of things, so we isolate them. You. Keep you separate. And it works. But it's soeasy, when you never meet people, when you never know the Earth itself, when you live with metal wallskeeping out the cold of space, it's easy to forget why Earth is worth saving. Why the world of people might beworth the price you pay."第 257 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网