Book-12 Gravity cyclone novella - стр. 16
– I hardly managed to break through the allowance, and you still have claims to me.
The guys quickly realized that the captain had nothing to do with it and began to invite him to their company for a bottle of vodka. But although the captain drank, he drank quietly, without noise. The authorities did not pay attention to the impeccable captain, and he imperceptibly served his 45- year term.
– I have only three years left. He spoke proudly to drinking companions. Who, having not yet tasted the joys of service, did not fully understand the captain what he meant. And so, the young lieutenant of the medical service left the general, firmly remembering that more than one instruction did not say about the use of hypnosis as therapeutic purposes for the treatment of the military personnel of the spaceport. And if so, then naturally the general could not give permission for this, but since he did not forbid him, the lieutenant decided that with Fedorov's tacit consent, he could afford to subject Major Gratsis to hypnosis. And inspired by his decision, he did not enter, flew into Elena's room. The cosmonaut at this time was sitting at her desk and writing a letter home. Surprised, she turned to the flying lieutenant: – You have to knock, young man.
– Excuse me, Elena Albertovna, but I am twenty- nine years old, and you too. Do you know what the difference between us is?
– What is it?
– The fact that you are the wife of the deceased astronaut, and I …
– The wife of the deceased general, the astronaut interrupted him venomously.
The doctor was clearly arrogant. Lowering his gaze, he fell silent. Then, in a deaf voice, like a guilty schoolboy, in front of a strict teacher, he mumbled: “I apologize to you.”
– Get out, brat, – the woman rudely threw out the insult. The lieutenant blushed from ear to ear, but obeyed and walked out the door. He stood with his back against the door and raised his eyes to the ceiling. Elena herself did not expect such a surge of emotional incontinence from herself. Somewhere deep in her soul, she was embarrassed for the stupid lieutenant, for his tactless behavior. But on the other hand, that he should run to her with a bouquet of roses and kneel to beg for a date.
“You want a lot, girl,” – she only had time to think, as there was a timid, barely audible knock at the door. – Come in! – the door creaked, and the lieutenant stuck his head through the gap:
– Sorry, but I need to talk to you.
– Are you here again?! We have nothing to talk about, Elena protested resolutely, wiping her tears with a handkerchief. “If you don’t leave this minute, I’ll call the outfit!” The lieutenant was no longer listening to her. He stood in front of her and looked like a dog with his huge eyes into her gray tear- stained pupils. The astronaut, sighing, enraged, sank into a chair. Vitaly took her weakened palm and, continuing to look into her eyes, said: