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"You'd better sit down, Andrew"

He started toward his seat, but stopped Noas I looking for? I can't think what I was looking for

"Your seat is over there," said Miss Pumphrey

He sat down, but it was so he had lost I'll find it later

"Your irl behind him

Andrew shrugged

"His monitor," she whispered to the others

Andrew reached up and felt his neck There was a bandaid It was gone He was just like everybody else now

"Washed out, Andy?" asked a boy who sat across the aisle and behind him Couldn't think of his name Peter No, that was someone else

"Quiet, Mr Stilson," said Miss Pumphrey Stilson smirked

Miss Pumphrey talked aboutcontourhis desk to display thele The teacher would know, of course, that he wasn't paying attention, but she wouldn't bother hiht he wasn't paying attention

In the corner of his desk a word appeared and beganaround the perimeter of the desk It was upside down and backward at first, but Ender knehat it said long before it reached the bottoht side up

THIRD

Ender ses and make them march--even as his secret enemy called him names, the method of delivery praised hiovernment's idea, they were the ones who authorized it--how else could a Third like Ender have got into school? And now the in hadn't worked out after all If they could, he was sure they would like to rescind the waivers that had allowed him to be born at all Didn't work, so erase the experiment

The bell rang Everyone signed off their desks or hurriedly typed in re lessons or data into their coathered at the printers while so they wanted to shoas printed out Ender spread his hands over the child-size keyboard near the edge of the desk and wondered what it would feel like to have hands as large as a grown-up's They ers and beefy paler keyboards--but how could their thick fingers draw a fine line, the way Ender could, a thin line so precise that he could e of the desk without the lines ever touching or overlapping It gave hi to do while the teacher droned on about arithht him arithmetic when he was three