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"A few months, now. My aim is better.""Any training in battle maneuvers? Have you ever been part of a toon? Have you ever carried out a jointexercise?"Ender had never heard of such things. He shook his head.Madrid looked at him steadily. "I see. As you will quickly learn, the officers in command of this school, mostnotably Major Anderson, who runs the game, are fond of playing tricks. Salamander Army is just beginning toemerge from indecent obscurity. We have won twelve of our last twenty games. We have surprised Rat andScorpion and Hound, and we are ready to play for leadership in the game. So of course, of course I am givensuch a useless, untrained, hopeless specimen of of underdevelopment as yourself."Petra said, quietly, "He isn't glad to meet you.""Shut up, Arkanian," Madrid said. "To one trial we now add another. But whatever obstacles our officerschoose to fling in our path, we are still--""Salamander!" cried the soldiers, in one voice. Instinctively, Ender's perception of these events changed. It wasa pattern, a ritual. Madrid was not trying to hurt him, merely taking control of a surprising event and using it tostrengthen his control of his army."We are the fire that will consume them, belly and bowel, head and heart, many flames of us, but one fire.""Salamander!" they cried again."Even this one will not weaken us."For a moment, Ender allowed himself to hope. "I'll work hard and learn quickly," he said.第 84 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网