"Richard Hatch - Battlestar Galactica 5 - Paradis" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hatch Richard)

 Starbuck stopped drinking his grog. He wasn't used to hearing a
bartender hold forth. It was usually the other way round.

"I know what you mean," said Starbuck and he meant it.

Emboldened, the man went on. "I want to see lots of clouds, all bunched
up in front of me. I want to feel the wind on my face and arms and legs. I'll
taste electricity in the air and raindrops on my tongue."

The bartender stopped, seemed to remember where he was and started
wiping the counter again. Starbuck felt the silence between them as if the
man's imagined electricity had just seeped into the bar.

"You want it bad," said the veteran of more space battles than even he
could remember. "I know how you feel."

"Yes," said the man who had served more drinks than he could
remember. "I'd pay any price for it. I never realized until this moment
what the new planet means to me. I'd do anything to have a life down
there."

Starbuck finished his drink. He glanced one last time at the gorgeous
Morgana. Her red hair flamed in a way that made him think of the star
they now orbited along with their new planet and its promise of renewed
life. She'd just made her conquest and was leading her portly client out of
the bar.

"You know what?" Starbuck asked.

"What?"

"If that citizen has any sense, he'll take her down to Paradis not to see
the sunset but the sunrise!"

"Breakfast is always good," the bartender agreed, wiping the counter
focused again on his world of serious drinking and casual liaisons.

"Wake me when it's over," said Boomer.

"Then who will wake me?" asked Troy.

"How much is it worth it to you if I stay awake?" Cassie wanted to
know.
 There was nothing more boring and bureaucratic than a meeting of the
Council. There was a limit to how many stats and projections anyone
could stand.

But then came the special moment. The Council broadcast from its
chamber a formal statement honoring Commander Cain and the sacrifice
of the Pegasus in the battle of Kobol, hopefully the final war for a people