"Jack McKinney - Robotech 03 - Homecoming" - читать интересную книгу автора (McKinney Jack)

She was one of them, and she gave herself to them totally, letting them
share the moment. Her silver-bright voice soared, taking the high notes with
complete confidence. Her slim, straight figure reflected the light back into
their eyes, the joy back into their hearts.
They were a battered, war-weary community, and in a way nobody quite
understood, she made them feel hope and experience a soaring elation. It had
been said-and not discounted by Minmei herself-that she was a reflection of
them, the military and civilian occupants of SDF-1.
Certainly there were precedents in history. Times of greatest danger and
tribulation inevitably bring forth symbols.
In human societies...
The three spies couldn't quite understand it but couldn't resist it
either. It had to be admitted, the gathering of humans might as easily be an
assembly of Zentraedi in some ways-except that this spirit of undisguised joy
was utterly weird. People swayed and laughed and forgot their problems, thinking
about home, and there wasn't a single pro-war propaganda message to be seen
anywhere.
Somebody threw an arm around Rico's shoulder from one side, somebody else
hanging one around Bron's from the other, and they were caught up in the swaying
of the throng. It so happened that the groups on either side were keeping
separate time, one going one way while the other went counter.
"This must be some kind of tribal ceremony," Konda speculated, but he
found himself enjoying it.
Still, somehow, as easily as if they'd been doing it all their lives, the
Zentraedi sorted out the conflicts and in a moment were swaying along with the
thousands upon thousands of others. It began to dawn on them what they were
seeing.
As had happened before, a symbol had arisen, and Minmei was it, uniquely
suited to the role. One tiny Micronian female, hoping to get home, possessed of
a kind of deathless optimism; and all that was set off by remarkable singing
skills and a personality that won over whomever she encountered. And none of it
was calculated; people sensed that. She was wonderful and straightforward, and
Macross City threw itself at her feet.
She's incredibly dangerous to the Zentraedi cause, Rico mused. Why do I
like her so much?
 "I feel incredibly primitive," Bron reported dubiously.
"But it has a pleasing effect on the senses," Rico was honest enough to
admit.
"It's-mass hypnosis!" Bron burst out, even though he'd been trained to
recognize mass hypnosis and knew this wasn't it.
"Yeah, but I kinda like it," Konda confessed. They swayed along with the
music and laughed at the people who swayed and laughed with them...

"Stage fright, go 'way-
This is my big day,
This is my time to be a star!
And the thrill that I feel
Is really unreal:
I can't believe I've come this far..."