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Ender grinned "OK Why not Let's see how they react to a formation" Bean was appalled "A formation! We've never done a formation in the whole time we've been an army!"

"We've still got aperiod is nor formations Always have to know forers, showed it to the blank door, and beckoned A toon quickly ein

g theh roohtened and confused, and it took nearly five

Tiger and Griffin soldiers were reduced to chanting catcalls, while their co force to attack Dragon Army while they were still behind the star Mo--"We outnuht and we can't lose, ure out a way to beat us"

So they sat tight, until finally in the dusky light they saw a large mass slip out from behind Ender's star It held its shape, even when it abruptly stoppedsideways and launched itself toward the dead center of the eight stars where eighty-two soldiers waited

"Doobie doo," said a Griffin "They're doing a formation"

"They ether for all fiveit, we could've destroyed them"

"Eat it, Momoe," whispered Bee "You saw the way that little kid flew He went all the way around the star and back behind without ever touching a wall Maybe they've all got hooks, did you think of that? They've got so new there"

The forhtly-packed bodies in front,a wall Behind it, a cylinder, six boys in circumference and two boys deep, their limbs outstretched and frozen so they couldn't possibly be holding on to each other Yet they held together as tightly as if they had been tied--which, in fact, they were

Fro with deadly accuracy, forcing Griffins and Tigers to stay tightly packed on their stars

"The back of that sucker is open," said Bee "As soon as they get between the stars, we can get around behind--"

"Don't talk about it, do it!" said Momoe Then he took his own advice and ordered his boys to launch against the wall and rebound out behind the Dragon formation

In the chaos of their takeoff, while Griffin Aron fored Both the cylinder and the front wall split in two, as boys inside it pushed off; al back toward the Dragon gate Most of the Griffins fired at the forers took the survivors of Dragon Army from behind

But there was soht for a moment and realized what it was Those forht unless someone pushed off in the opposite direction, and if they took off with enough force to oing fast

There they were, six son soldiers down near Willia on their flash suits, Bee could see that three of theed; only one hole Nothing to be frightened of Bee casually aimed at them, pressed the button, and--