"GOLDEN, CHRISTIE - THE LAST ROUND-UP" - читать интересную книгу автора (Golden Christie)

guessing yourself." He looked back at her kindly. "Without being
afraid."

"But her voice was so calm ... "

"One thing you'll need to learn if you want to be an ambassador, Skalli,
is that you don't have to surrender to your emotions all the time."

She looked at him with a mixture of awe and disbelief. "So I have heard
... but, Captain, I must confess, that seems impossible to me!"

"It certainly doesn't seem to come easily to your people," Kirk agreed.
"But it can he learned."

He nodded in Cadet T'Fran's direction. She was standing on a jagged
outcropping of metal, her hands clasped in front of her, her head bowed
in meditation. "Vulcans used to be highly emotional, until they decided
to embrace logic instead. Now they still have emotions, but they know
how to control them."

Skalli laughed brightly, shifting from compassionate sorrow to mirth in
an instant. "That, too, seems impossible!"

Some of the students frowned, clearly thinking Skalli--and by
association Kirk--must be being disrespectful of the solemnity he had
just encouraged them to experience. After laughing, Skalli continued to
talk.

Kirk didn't dislike Skalli, but she was certainly a trial. So was Spock,
at first, he reminded himself. And look what happened there.

But he was too old to take so young a creature through something as
important as disciplining her emotions. It was just as well that this
semester was over and he wouldn't be seeing the youngster on a regular
basis. He didn't have the patience to--

"What?" he asked, hoping he had misunderstood Skalli's chatter.

"My personal advisor," she said brightly. "There was such a long waiting
list for you! But because I'm the first Huanni to attend the Academy,
they made a special exception for me and moved me right to the top of
the line. Wasn't that kind! So now I'll get to meet with you every day,
no matter what classes I'm taking!"

To his keen embarrassment, she threw her arms around him and hugged him
tightly, then hugged herself and whirled around a few times.

"Imagine what they'll think back on Huan ... little Skalli, who has the
great, famous Captain James T. Kirk as her advisor!"