ing for the enemy gate. They did the victory ritual right under the other armies nose’s and Dragon Army won again. Ender decided he was through with all the battles, he was through with the games, and he wasn’t going to play their games anymore. But, he didn’t have to. He was graduated to Command school the same day. He took a shuttle to earth because they had none to go to Eros from the Battle School. He had a short landside leave. Valentine was having fun with Demonsthenes. Peter was mad at Valentine because Demonsthenes was invited to take part in the President’s Council on Education for the Future. Now Peter stopped telling her what to write about hoping this would make her column’s quality go down, but it didn’t. She didn’t need any help with Demonsthenes because she had been him too long. She knew how to write the column without Peter. Demonsthenes gradually took on a life of his own. At times she found herself thinking like Demonsthenes. Graff knew the true identity of Demonsthenes and used this against Valentine. Colonel Graff noticed that Ender didn’t want to go to command school, so he forced Valentine to talk Ender into going to Command School to save the world. She talked to Ender about Locke and Demonsthenes and then she decided to talk Ender into going to Command school. She used his weakest place against him and stabbed him there. She said if Ender tries and loses then it’s not his fault, but if he doesn’t try and they all die it is his entire fault. Ender decided he should go to Command School. Valentine was savagely angry with them for making them come to Ender like that. Ender took a shuttle to Eros, a planetoid where the Command school was located.During the three-month voyage to Eros, Graff explained everything he knew about the buggers to Ender. The most important thing though is that they had no communication, no language, that they communicate mind to min...
