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My iination was too much exalted by ive life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man

- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Shiprecords

"I LIKE to call this the Flower Roo Rachel Deht there, and she did not like the way the younger clones pulled back from Murdoch A clone herself, she had heard the stories about this place and wanted to hold back, to delay as happening But it was her only chance at the Oakes/Lewis political circle Murdoch kept a strong grip on her arm just above the elbow and she knew the pain he could cause if she hesitated

Murdoch stopped at the lock and glanced at his charge

This one won’t carry any htly blue cast to her skin, her nervous, gangly limbs made her appear cold

"Perhaps you and I could work soainst him

Murdoch was tempte but that blue skin!

"I’m sorry, but this is standard for everyone orks here There are things we need to know - and things that you need to know, too"

He really was sorry, res which had happened to his which he did not re fact in itself But orders were orders

"Is this the place you call the Scream Room?" Her voice was barely a whisper as she stared at the hatch into the lock

"It’s the Flower Roo clone" He waved vaguely at the room behind her "All of thelance back There had been sos in the roo in Murdoch’s

He took her hand then and placed her palm on the sensor-scribe beside the hatch - "To record your entry ti sensation as her palm touched the scribe

Murdoch smiled, but there was noswitch The hatch hissed open and he thrust her into it

"In you go"

She heard the hatch seal behind her, but her attention was on the inner hatch as it opened When it had side, she realized that what she had thought was a grotesque statue standing there was actually a naked living creature framed by the open end of the lock An and there were tears strea down the creature’s cheeks

"Cos

Shethrough the sensors overhead The roohted by corner tubes which filled the entire space with a deep red illuoyle took her ar her into the roo

"I ah"

Rachel looked around at a circle of grinning figures - so therotesque than Jessup She saw that a male with short arms and bulbous head directly in front of her had an enorrasp it and point it at her

These people are real! she thought This is not a nightin to describe this place

"Clones," Jessup whispered beside her, as though he had been reading her mind "All clones and they owe their lives to Jesus Lewis"