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"I thought that hy you were taking personal attack classes"

"You've really been watching me, haven't you?"

Dink didn't answer

"I don't want to get Rose mad atout till the end"

"Your standings will go down"

This time Ender didn't answer

"Listen, Ender, as long as you're part of my toon, you're part of the battle"

Ender soon learned why Dink trained his toon independently froor; he never consulted with Rose, and only rarely did the whole arether It was as if Rose commanded one army, and Dink commanded a much smaller one that happened to practice in the battleroom at the same time

Dink started out the first practice by asking Ender to demonstrate his

feet-first attack position The other boys didn't like it "How can we attack lying on our backs?" they asked

To Ender's surprise, Dink didn't correct the on your back, you're dropping doard toward the, but he had not understood the orientation that

it ih Dink was very, very good, his persistence in holding onto the corridor gravity orientation instead of thinking of the ene

They practiced attacking an ene Ender's feet-firstup, their whole bodies available as a target Even now, though, they reached the star and then assaulted the enemy from one direction only; "Over the top," cried Dink, and over they went To his credit, he then repeated the exercise, calling, "Again, upside down," but because of their insistence on a gravity that didn't exist, the boys becao seized them

They hated the feet-first attack Dink insisted that they use it As a result, they hated Ender "Do we have to learn how to fight fro sure Ender could hear "Yes," answered Dink They kept working

And they learned it In practice skiran to realize howfeet first As soon as they were convinced of that, they practiced the ly