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BONZO

"General Pace, please sit down I understand you have coency"

"Ordinarily, Colonel Graff, I would not presus of the Battle School Your autonouaranteed, and despite our difference in ranks I om quite aware that it is my authority only to advise, not to order you to take action"

"Action?"

"D o not be disingenuous withstupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived You knohy I am here"

"AhI guess this means Dap filed a report"

"H e feels--paternal toward the students here He feels your neglect of a potentially lethal situation is ence--that it borders on conspiracy to cause the death or serious injury of one of the students here"

"This is a school for children, General Pace Hardly athe chief of IF military police here for"

"Colonel Graff, the nah command It has even reached my ears I have heard him describedinvasion When it is his life or health that is in danger, I do not think it untoward that theand protecting the boy Do you? "

"Da"

"D o you? "

"Better than anyone else"

"Oh , that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing You have known for eight days that there is a conspiracy a some of theof Ender Wiggin, if they can And that some members of this conspiracy, notably the boy named Bonito de Madrid, commonly called Bonzo, are quite likely to exhibit no self-restraint when this punishin, an inestimably important international resource, will be placed in serious danger of having his brains pasted on the walls of your orbiting schoolhouse And you, fully warned of this danger, propose to do exactly--"

"Nothing "