Ben stood watching an old Bothan limp back and forth across the grimy floor of the undercity industrial hangar. The Bothan was addressing three brigades of elite space marines--a few faces among them ones that Petra had been looking for, not that Ben coud pick them out among the thousands--explaining why he had asked them to volunteer for a ( Read more... )

Ender had wandered off on his own for a while, which meant that Ben now had a chance to really explore Eros ( Read more... )

The email Dink had sent had included a series of attachments that took a while to decrypt and uncompress, so Ben set his computer on that task while he went for his usual morning run. The information was ready for him when he returned to his empty room. Keeping half his attention on tracking Ender's position on the island (and feeling slightly ( Read more... )

( Where Ben finally discovers another Battle Schooler he doesn't immediately loathe... )