Diana Gabaldon. Stranger (№ 194489)

People are gregarious animals out of necessity. They were in the cave times, when hairless, weak and defenseless, whose weapon was just a Ruse - he survived due to the fact that banded together; they realized that protection - in the multitude. This understanding came in the flesh and blood, it unconsciously controls the crowd. For uncounted, untold millennia, the exit of the pack, the juxtaposition of her meant death for someone who has decided to take this step. The confrontation of the crowd requires not only personal courage, it requires overcoming the age-old instinct.