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"Yes sir," Ender said

"Well answer it, then!"

"I thought of you hanging upside down by your feet I thought it was funny"

It sounded stupid, noith Graff looking at him coldly "To you I suppose it is funny Is it funny to anybody else here?"

Murmurs of no

"Well why isn't it?" Graff looked at theot in this launch Pinheaded little morons Only one of you had the brains to realize that in null gravity directions are what-ever you conceive them to be Do you understand that, Shafts?"

The boy nodded

"No you didn't Of course you didn't Not only stupid, but a liar too There's only one boy on this launch with any brains at all, and that's Ender Wiggin Take a good look at hi to be a commander when you're still in diapers up there Because he kno to think in null gravity, and you just want to throw up"

This wasn't the way the shoas supposed to go Graff was supposed to pick on hiainst each other at first, so they could become friends later

"Most of you are going to ice out Get used to that, little boys Most of you are going to end up in Combat School, because you don't have the brains to handle deep-space piloting Most of you aren't worth the price of bringing you up here to Battle School because you don't have what it takes Soht make it Some of you m

ight be worth so on only one"

Suddenly Graff did a backflip and caught the ladder with his hands, then swung his feet away froling by his hands, if the floor was up Hand over hand he swung hi the aisle to his seat

"Looks like you've got it made here," whispered the boy next to him Ender shook his head

"Oh, won't even talk to me?" the boy said

"I didn't ask him to say that stuff," Ender whispered