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Then one shot fro up That's all that was ever shown Lots of filer ships Lots of bugger corpses lying around inside But no fil in personal combat, unless it was spliced in from the First Invasion It frustrated Ender that Mazer Rackham's victory was so obviously censored Students in the Battle School hadabout his victory was concealed from view The passion for secrecy was not very helpful to the children who had to learn to accoain what Mazer Rackham had done

Of course, as soon as word got around that Ender Wiggin atching the war vids over and over again, the video roo the sa they understood why he atching and what he was getting out of it Ender never explained anything Even when he showed seven scenes from the same battle, but from different vids, only one boy asked, tentatively, "Are some of those from the same battle?"

Ender only shrugged, as if it didn't matter

It was during the last hour of practice on the seventh day, only a few hours after Ender's army had won its seventh battle, that Major Anderson himself came into the video roo there, and then spoke to Ender "Colonel Graff wishes to see you in his office immediately"

Ender got up and followed Anderson through the corridors Anderson palmed the locks that kept students out of the officers' quarters; finally they came to where Graff had taken root on a swivel chair bolted to the steel floor His belly spilled over both arht Ender tried to remember Graff hadn't seemed particularly fat at all when Ender firstkind to the administrator of the Battle School

"Seven days since your first battle, Ender," said Graff

Ender did not reply

"And you've won seven battles, once a day"

Ender nodded

"Your scores are unusually high, too"

Ender blinked

"To what, commander, do you attribute your remarkable success?"

"You gave me an army that does whatever I can think for it to do"

"And what have you thought for it to do?"

"We orient doard toward the enes as a shield We avoid forot five toons of eight instead of four of ten Also, our enemies haven't the time to respond effectively to our new techniques, so we keep beating the"