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Marching constantly around every boy's desk was this e:

I LOVE YOUR BUTT LET ME KISS IT

--BERNARD

"I didn't write thaton for some time, Dap appeared at the door

"What's the fuss?" he asked

"So e?"

"It doesn't e!"

"It does toto the boy who bunked above Ender Dap read it, save back the desk

"Interesting," he said

"Aren't you going to find out who did it?" demanded Bernard

"Oh, I knoho did it," Dap said

Yes, Ender thought The system was too easily broken They mean us to break it, or sections of it They knoas me

"Well, who, then?" Bernard shouted

"Are you shouting at me, soldier?" asked Dap, very softly

At once the e on the part of Bernard's closest friends and barely containedthe rest, all became somber Authority was about to speak