After the battle that night, Ender calls Bean into his room.  It’s 10 minutes from lights out, and Bean wonders why.  Ender tells him how he knows that the teachers are trying to break him and Dragon Army, but he also knows that he can take it-for a while.  He tells Bean that he can’t keep coming up with new ideas indefinitely, so he wants Bean to.  He reminds Bean of his request to be a toon leader weeks ago, and how he denied him.  Ender tells him that he needs to choose 5 boys from a list that Ender gives him, and that those would be his toon.  It is to be a “special force,” where Bean thinks of the most…unexpected tactics, and to train them apart from the regular army, to be called on only when needed.

            The lights go out, and Bean stays rather than try to find his way back to bed.  Ender laughs as he tells Bean that if he listens carefully, he would hear the teachers drop off their battle announcement for the next day.

            I like this part, because it shows how Ender knows that he can’t go on forever, and yet he can’t loose a single game.