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Nobody looked at Ender

"So, boys, if any of you are thinking of being troublemakers, at least be clever about it, OK?"

Dap left They still didn't look at Ender

Ender felt the fear growing in his belly The kid whose arm he broke--Ender didn't feel sorry for hiathering a gang A little knot of kids, several of the bigger ones They were laughing at the far end of the room, and every now and then one of them would turn to look at Ender

With all his heart, Ender wanted to go ho the world? There was no ain, only they were right in his rooain, but without Valentine

The fear stayed, all through dinner as no one sat by his--the big scoreboard on one wall, the food, the bigger kids Ender could only watch in isolation

The scoreboards were teas Win-loss records, with the er boys apparently had bets on the ames Two teams, Manticore and Asp, had no recent score--these boxes were flashing Ender decided they ht now

He noticed that the older boys were divided into groups, according to the uniforether, but generally the groups each had their own area Launchies--their own group, and the two or three next older groups--all had plain blue unifor kids, the ones that were on tea Ender tried to guess which ones hich name Scorpion and Spider were easy So were Flame and Tide

A bigger boy caer--he looked to be twelve or thirteen Getting his rowth started

"Hi," he said

"Hi," Ender said

"I'm Mick"

"Ender"

"That's a name?"

"Since I was little It's what my sister called me"