"Modesitt,.L.E.-.Flash" - читать интересную книгу автора (Modesitt L E)

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Chapter 2



The screen showed a body on the stasis slab. Short dark brown
hair topped an oval faceЧsquare-jawed and clean-shavenЧa face
a trace too long to be perfectly proportioned. Dark half-circles lay
under open unseeing eyes and thick eyebrows. No lines crossed
the smooth forehead, and none radiated from the corners of the
eyes. A sheet covered the lower part of the body, but it could not
conceal that the area below the chest had been crushed.

"Almost looks flash," observed Yenci, blade-slender in the dark
grays of a safety officer. "Too perfect. No history. Just a pretty
face. Except pretty faces don't look so pretty when they're dead."

Silence followed the safo's words.

"Do we have an ID on this one?" Yenci finally asked.

"No ID."

"GIL check?" pursued the safo, the edge in her voice muted.

"No match."

"Not in the whole friggin' world? No trace to an existing clone
pattern, no commercial cydroids, nothing? We've got three .. three
clone/ cydroids, all different, and there's not a trace to anyone?"
Yenci's blue eyes hardened, although they were never softer than
agate at most times, even when registering through scanners.
"Your banks and systems can't find anything?"

"There is no match to DNA within acceptable parameters."

"What the frig does that mean?"

"The vast majority of human DNA is shared. Ninety-nine percent is
close to identical to certain other primate speciesЧ"

"Enough. Heard that before." Yenci paused. "Captain won't like
this. He won't. Lieutenant won't either."

"Do you want a facial comparison?"

"Low priorityЧonly on low-level. Office can't afford any priority."