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"Bonzo isn't going to let you practice He's going to ht, in a way--he don't want a totally untrained little kid to screw up his precision y talk that ilish of uneducated people "Bonzo, he pre-dse He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash"

Ender grinned

"The battleroom is open all the time If you want, I'll take you in the off hours and show you soreat soldier, but I'ood, and I sure know more than you"

"If you want," Ender said

"Starting to after breakfast"

"What if soht after breakfast, in my launch"

"No problem There are really nine battlerooms"

"I never heard of any others"

"They all have the same entrance The whole center of the battle school, the hub of the wheel, is battlerooms They don't rotate with the rest of the station That's how they do the nullo, the no-gravity--it just holds still No spin, no down But they can set it up so that any one of the rooms is at the battleroom entrance corridor that we all use Once you're inside, theyand another battleroom's in position"

"Oh"

"Like I said Right after breakfast"

"Right," Ender said

She started to walk away

"Petra," he said

She turned back