"Maureen McHugh - Nekropolis" - читать интересную книгу автора (McHugh Maureen F)

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Contents

1. Paper Flowers

2. Ties

3. Duty

4. The Invisible Rule

5. In the Land of the Infidel


1.

Paper Flowers

How I came to be jessed. Well, like most people who are jessed, I was sold. I was twenty-one, and I
was sold three times in one day, one right after another; first to a dealer who looked at my teeth and in
my ears and had me scanned for augmentation; then to a second dealer where I sat in the back office
drinking tea and talking with a gap-toothed boy who was supposed to be sold to a restaurant owner as a
clerk; and finally that afternoon to the restaurant owner. The restaurant owner couldn't really have wanted
the boy anyway, since the position was for his wife's side of the house.

The jessing itself happened rather quickly, at the first dealer's. There was a package with foreign writing
on it, from the north across the sea, so even the letters were strange and unreadable. He made me lean
my head back and open my mouth, and he sprayed the roof of my mouth with an anesthetic. Then he