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Bridegan only kept on laughing "It would make me what I've always been--a bloody-ainst the cruel That's e're doing, fighting the For if I took off your father's hands up to the elbows"
In reply, Zeck recited from the book of Daniel "'A stone was cut out without hands, which se upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces'"
"Without hands A neat trick," said Bridegan
"'And the stone that sreat mountain, and filled the whole earth,'" said Zeck
"He's got the whole King Janes
"'And in the days of these kings,'" recited Zeck, "'shall the God of heaven set up a kingdodom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consudoms, and it shall stand for ever'"
"They're going to love hian
So Zeck spent that Christ up to the station that housed Battle School He did nothing to cause disturbance, obeyed every order he was given When his launch group first went into the Battle Room, Zeck learned to fly just like all the others He even pointed his weapon at targets that were assigned
It took quite a while before anyone noticed that Zeck never actually hit anybody with his weapon In every battle, he was zero for zero Statistically, he was the worst soldier in the history of the school In vain did the teachers point out that it was just a game
"'Neither shall they learn war any more,'" quoted Zeck in return "I will not offend God by learning war" They could take him into space, they could make him wear the uniform, they could force him into the Battle Room, but they couldn't make him shoot
It took many months, and they still wouldn't send hied to an army, he practiced with them, but on every battle report, he was listed with zero effectiveness There was no soldier in the school prouder of his record
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SINTERKLAAS EVE
Dink Meeker watched as Ender Wiggin cah the door into Rat Army's barracks As usual, Rosen was near the entrance, and he immediately launched into his "I Rose de Nose, Jewboy extraordinaire" routine It was how Rosen wrapped hih Rosen wasn't Israeli and he also wasn't a particularly good commander
Not a bad one, either Rat Ars But how much of that was Rosen, and how much was the fact that Rosen relied so heavily on Dink's toon--which Dink had trained?