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"After we win the war," said Graff, "Or lose it. We'll have a few decades before they get back here to finish usoff. The house will be there, and I promise you can swim to your heart's content.""But I'll still be too young for security clearance.""We'll keep you under armed guard at all times. The military knows how to handle these things."They both laughed, and Ender had to remind himself that Graff was only acting like a friend, that everything hedid was a lie or a cheat calculated to turn Ender into an efficient fighting machine. I'll become exactly the toolyou want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I won't be *fooled* into it. I'll do it because I choose to, notbecause you tricked me, you sly bastard.The tug reached Eros before they could see it. The captain showed them the visual scan, then superimposed theheat scan on the same screen. They were practically on top of it -- only four thousand kilometers out -- but Eros,only twenty-four kilometers long, was invisible if it didn't shine with reflected sunlight.The captain docked the ship on one of the three landing platforms that circled Eros. It could not land directlybecause Eros had enhanced gravity, and the tug, designed for towing eargos, could never escape the gravity well.He bade them an irritable goodbye, but Ender and Graff remained cheerful. The captains was bitter at having toleave his tug; Ender and Graff felt like prisoners finally paroled from jail. When they boarded the shuttle thatwould take them to the surface of Eros they repeated perverse misquotations of lines from the videos that thecaptain had endlessly watched, and laughed like madmen. The captain grew surly and withdrew by pretending togo to sleep. Then, almost as an afterthought, Ender asked Graff one last question."Why are we fighting the buggers?""I've heard all kinds of reasons," said Graff. "Because they have an overcrowded system and they've got tocolonize. Because they can't stand the thought of other intelligent life in the universe. Because they don't thinkwe are intelligent life. Because they have some weird religion. Because they watched our old video broadcastsand decided we were hopelessly violent. All kinds of reasons."第 266 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网