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last soldier who tried. He was discovered hanging by his feet from the ceiling of the bathroom, with his headstuffed in the toilet.""So I'm not the first person to ask the question.""You remember this, little boy." When she said little boy it sounded friendly, not contemptuous. "They nevertell you any more truth than they have to. But any kid with brains knows that there've been some changes inscience since the days of old Mazer Rackham and the Victorious Fleet. Obviously we can now control gravity.Turn it on and off, change the direction, maybe reflect it-- I've thought of lots of neat things you could do withgravity weapons and gravity drives on starships. And think how starships could move near planets. Maybe tearbig chunks out of them by reflecting the planet's own gravity back on itself, only from another direction, andfocused down to a smaller point. But they say nothing."Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers wasanother; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tellus the truth."Come, little boy," she said. "The battleroom is ready. Petra's hands are steady. The enemy is deady." Shegiggled. "Petra the poet, they call me.""They also say you're crazy as a loon.""Better believe it, baby butt." She had ten target balls in a bag. Ender held onto her suit with one hand and thewall with the other, to steady her as she threw them, hard, in different directions. In the null gravity, theybounced every which way. "Let go of me," she said. She shoved off, spinning deliberately; with a few deft handmoves she steadied herself, and began aiming carefully at ball after ball. When she shot one, its glow changedfrom white to red. Ender knew that the color change lasted less than two minutes. Only one ball had changedback to white when she got the last one.She rebounded accurately from a wall and came at high speed back to Ender. He caught her and held heragainst her own rebound, one of the first techniques they had taught him as a Launchy.第 91 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网