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They filed clu pool for the first tiravity was frightening, disorienting; they soon found that things went better if they didn't use their feet at all

Worse, the suits were confining It was harder to make precise movements, since the suits bent just a bit slower, resisted a bitthey had ever worn before

Ender gripped the handhold and flexed his knees He noticed that along with the sluggishness, the suit had an aet thely, after his , and the suit pushes with twice the force I'll be cluet started

So, still grasping the handhold, he pushed off strongly with his feet Instantly he flipped around, his feet flying over his head, and landed flat on his back against the wall The rebound was stronger, it seemed, and his hands tore loose fro over and over

For a sickening moment he tried to retain his old up-and-down orientation, his body atteravity that wasn't there Then he forced hi toward a wall That was down And at once he had control of hi This was a dive He could choose hoould hit the surface

I' too fast to catch ahold and stay, but I can soften the ile if I roll when I hit and use my feet--

It didn't work at all the way he had planned He went off at an angle, but it was not the one he had predicted Nor did he have time to consider He hit another wall, this time too soon to have prepared for it But quite accidently he discovered a way to use his feet to control the rebound angle Noas soaring across the roo to the wall This ti He was at a crazy angle in relation to the other boys, but once again his

orientation had changed, and as far as he could tell, they were all lying on the floor, not hanging on a wall, and he was no more upside down than they were

"What are you trying to do, kill yourself?" asked Shen

"Try it," Ender said "The suit keeps you fro with your legs, like this" He approximated the movement he had made

Shen shook his head--he wasn't trying any fool stunt like that But one boy did take off, not as fast as Ender had, because he didn't begin with a flip, but fast enough Ender didn't even have to see his face to know that it was Bernard And right after him, Bernard's best friend, Alai

Ender watched the to orient hiht of as the floor, Alai surrendering to theto rebound from the wall No wonder Bernard broke his arhtens up when he's flying He panics Ender stored the information away for future reference

And another bit of information, too Alai did not push off in the same direction as Bernard He aied more andlanding and bounce on his wall, Alai did a glancing triple bounce on three surfaces near the corner that left hi angle Alai shouted and whooped, and so did the boys watching hio of the wall to clap their hands Now they drifted lazily into swim

Now, that's a proble? There's no way to push off

He was tempted to set himself adrift and try to solve the problem by trial and error But he could see the others, their useless efforts at control, and he couldn't think of what he would do that they weren't already doing