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One by one, his friends reluctantly left him, called home to their families, to be received with heroes' welcomesin their towns. Ender watched the videos of their homecomings, and was touched when they' spent much of theirtime praising Ender Wiggin, who taught them everything, they said, who taught them and led them into victory.But if they called for him to be brought home, the words were censored from the videos and no one heard theplea.For a time, the only work in Eros was cleaning up after the bloody League War and receiving the reports of thestarships, once warships, that were now exploring the bugger colony worlds.But now Eros was busier than ever, more crowded than it bad ever been during the war, as colonists werebrought here to prepare for their voyages to the empty bugger worlds. Ender took part in the work, as much asthey would let him, but it did not occur to them that this twelve-year-old boy might be as gifted at peace as hewas at war. But he was patient with their tendency to ignore him, and learned to make his proposals and suggesthis plans through the few adults who listened to him, and let them present them as their own. He was concerned,not about getting credit, but about getting the job done.The one thing he could not bear was the worship of the colonists. He learned to avoid the tunnels where theylived, because they would always recognize him -- the world had memorized his face -- and the they wouldscream and shout and embrace him and congratulate him and show him the children they had named after himand tell him how he was so young it broke their hearts and *they* didn't blame him for any of his murdersbecause it wasn't his fault he was just a *child*--He hid from them as best he could.There was one colonist, though, he couldn't hide from.He wasn't inside Eros that day. He had gone up with the shuttle to the new ISL, where he had been learning todo surface work on the starships; it was unbecoming to an officer to do mechanical labor, Chamrajnagar toldhim, but Ender answered that since the trade he had mastered wasn't much called for now, it was about time helearned another skill.第 325 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网