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"I said why does every one of you have his feet in the air and his head toward the ground!"

Finally one of the out of the door"

"Well what difference is that supposed to ravity was back in the corridor! Are we going to fight in the corridor? Is there any gravity here?"

No sir No sir

"Froh that door The old gravity is gone, erased Understand et to the door, reate is down Your feet are toward the eneate North is that way, south is that way, east is that est is--ay?"

They pointed

"That's what I expected The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet What was the circus I saw out here! Did you call that for? Now everybody, launch and forht now! Move!"

As Ender expected, a good number of them instinctively launched, not toward the ith the door in it, but toward the wall that Ender had called north, the direction that had been up when they were in the corridor Of course they quickly realized their s until they had rebounded off the north wall

In thethem into slow learners and fast learners The littlest kid, the one who had been last out of the door, was the first to arrive at the correct wall, and he caught hiht to advance him He'd do well He was also cocky and rebellious, and probably resented the fact that he had been one of the ones Ender had sent naked through the corridors

"You!" Ender said, pointing at the small one "Which way is down?"

"Toward the enemy door" The ansas quick It was also surly, as if to say, OK, OK, now get on with the important stuff

"Name, kid?"

"This soldier's name is Bean, sir"

"Get that for size or for brains?" The other boys laughed a little "Well, Bean, you're right onto things Now listen to h that door without a good chance of getting hit In the old days, you had ten, twenty seconds before you even had toout of the door when the enemy comes out, you're frozen Nohat happens when you're frozen?"

"Can't move," one of the boys said