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"You shut up," said Bonzo "Shut up and stand out of the way" He began to take off his uniform "Naked and wet and alone, Ender, so we're even I can't help that I'ure out how to handle me" He turned to the others "Watch the door Don't let anyone else in"

The bathroo fixtures protruded everywhere It had been launched in one piece, as a low-orbit satellite, packed full of the water reclaned to have no wasted space It was obvious what their tactics would have to be Throw the other boy against fixtures until one of thee that he stops

When Ender saw Bonzo's stance, his heart sank Bonzo had also taken classes And probably er, and he was full of hate He would not be gentle He will go for e , he's bound to win His strength can control me If I'm to walk away from here, I have to win quickly, and per way that Stilson's bones had given way But this time it will be my body that breaks, unless I can break him first

Ender stepped back, flipped the showerhead so it turned outward, and turned on pure hot water Alan to rise He turned on the next, and the next

"I'm not afraid of hot water," said Bonzo His voice was soft

But it wasn't the hot water that Ender wanted It was the heat His body still had soap on it, and his sweat moistened it, made his skin more slippery than Bonzo would expect

Suddenly there was a voice froht it was a teacher, coht, but it was only Dink Meeker Bonzo's friends caught him at the door, held him "Stop it, Bonzo!" Dink cried "Don't hurt him!"

"Why not?" asked Bonzo, and for the first tiht Ender, he loves to have sonize that he is the one in control, that he has power

"Because he's the best, that's why! Who else can fight the buggers! That's what ers!"

Bonzo stopped s he hated most about Ender, that Ender really mattered to other people, and, in the end, Bonzo did not You've killed me with those words, Dink Bonzo doesn't want to hear that I ht save the world

Where are the teachers? thought Ender Don't they realize that the first contact between us in this fight ht in the battlerooe There's gravity

in here, and the floor and walls are hard and jutted with metal Stop this now or not at all

"If you touch hierlover!" cried Dink "You're a traitor, if you touch him you deserve to die!" They jammed Dink's face backward into the door and he was silent

The mist fro down Ender's body Now, before the soap is carried off me Nohile I'm still too slippery to hold

Ender stepped back, letting the fear he felt show in his face "Bonzo, don't hurt me," he said "Please"