Colonel Graff came back to get Ender. It had turned out they wanted to see how Ender could handle himself without the monitor and he had done it perfectly. Colonel Graff took Ender to Battle School. Graff had isolated him from the other boys in his launch group by stating that Ender was the best of them, so Ender had no choice but to be the best in the group to make them like him. After a while, Ender made friends with a boy named Alai. Ender and Alai were the best among their launch group in the Battle room. Ender and Alai formed a group with their friends within the launch group and Alai quickly became the leader of the group and their launch group.A game that the kids could play on their desk, a sort of computer, was the Giant’s Drink. It was a 3D game with a character that could go wherever the player moved it and do whatever the player wanted it to do. It had games within each world where you could collect points and things. But, at the end of the level was a giant where he offered the player two drinks that were always different. One drink would kill you and the other would let you get into Fairyland. It was an unbeatable game. The player would always die and each death was different. One time, Ender didn’t drink either glass. He burrowed his hand into the giant’s eye and they giant rolled over and died. He had gotten into Fairyland by killing the giant. Ender didn’t like being a murderer and so he cried again.Colonel Graff had promoted Ender into the Salamander Army. It was one of the many armies within the Battle School. Only the older boys, boys above eight, were in armies and Ender wasn’t even seven yet. He was the smallest soldier in Salamander army. Ender made friends with Petra Arkanian, the only girl in Salamander army. She was the best sharpshooter in the army too. Petra was an outcast among the army though. Ender had made the wrong friend, but Petra was better than no friends were. She had a...
