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him to eat, he didn't eat.Two more of his squadron leaders collapsed the way that Petra had; the pressure on the rest became all thegreater. The enemy outnumbered them by three or four to one in every battle now; the enemy also retreated morereadily when things went badly, regrouping to keep the battle going longer and longer. Sometimes battles lastedfor hours before they finally destroyed the last enemy ship. Ender began rotating his squadron leaders within thesame battle, bringing in fresh and rested ones to take the place of those who were beginning to get sluggish."You know," said Bean one time, as he took over command of Hot Soup's four remaining fighters, "this gameisn't quite as fun as it used to be."Then one day in practice, as Ender was drilling his squadron leaders, the room went black and he woke up onthe floor with his face bloody where he had hit the controls.They put him to bed then, and for three days he was very ill. He remembered seeing faces in his dreams, butthey weren't real faces, and he knew it even while he thought he saw them. He thought he saw Valentinesometimes, and sometimes Peter; sometimes his friends from the Battle School, and sometimes the buggersvivisecting him. Once it seemed very real when he saw Colonel Graff bending over him speaking softly to him,like a kind father. But then he woke top and found only his enemy, Mazer Rackham."I'm awake," said Ender."So I see," Mazer answered. "Took you long enough. You have a battle today."So Ender got up and fought the battle and won it. But there was no second battle that day, and they let him go tobed earlier. His hands were shaking as be undressed.During the night he thought he felt hands touching him gently. Hands with affection in them, and gentleness.He dreamed he heard voices."You haven't been kind to him."第 301 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网