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"And sometimes we don't," Ender answered her. If she got help, it would not be from him. He would teach; lether find her friends among the others.Then came a battle that nearly ended in disaster. Petra led her force too far; they were exposed, and shediscovered it in a moment when Ender wasn't with her. In only a few moments she had lost all but two of herships.Ender found her then, ordered her to move them in a certain direction; she didn't answer. There was nomovement. And in a moment those two fighters, too, would be lost.Ender knew at once that he had pushed her too hard because of her brilliance -- he had called on her to play farmore often and under much more demanding circumstances than all but a few of the others. But he had no timenow to worry about Petra, or to feel guilty about what he had done to her. He called on Crazy Tom to commandthe two remaining fighters, then went on, trying to salvage the battle; Petra had occupied a key position, and nowall of Ender's strategy came apart. If the enemy had not been too eager and clumsy at exploiting their advantage,Ender would have lost. But Shen was able to catch a group of the enemy in too tight a formation and took themout with a single chain reaction. Crazy Tom brought his two surviving fighters in through the gap and causedhavoc with the enemy, and though his ships and Shen's as well were finally destroyed, Fly Molo was able to mopup and complete the victory.At the end of the battle, he could hear Petra crying out, trying to get a microphone, "Tell him I'm sorry, I wasjust so tired, I couldn't think, that was all, tell Ender I'm sorry."She was not there for the next few practices, and when she did come back she was not as quick as she had been,not as daring. Much of what had made her a good commander was lost. Ender couldn't use her anymore, exceptin routine, closely supervised assignments. She was no fool. She knew what had happened. But she also knewthat Ender had no other choice, and told him so.The fact remained that she had broken, and she was far from being the weakest of his squad leaders. It was awarning -- he could not press his commanders more than they could bear. Now, instead of using his leaderswhenever he needed their skills, he had to keep in mind how often they had fought. He had to spell them off,which meant that sometimes he went into battle with commanders he trusted a little less. As he eased the第 297 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网