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and bent down to inspect the wound in the man's chest. His
own shadow lurched across the prone body, but Rodney didn't
notice with his drastically reduced field of view. The tech
could see that the wound was clean; the tissue had been
hacked and the veins and arteries roughly severed, but
Rodney didn't think it would be difficult to make repairs.
He measured the chest cavity and, leaving the table
unattended, went searching for an appropriate synHeart. In
the resurrection room other Servants wandered about,
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monitoring vats, meticulously jotting down information.
Rodney always felt the irony of having Servants assist him
here on Level Six--it seemed like having cattle help out in a
slaughterhouse.
The technician stopped at the door to the organ-supply
room, keyed in his request to the Net terminal mounted by
the door. Moments later, in a puff of cryogenic mist, the door
slid open and a flashing light indicated the location of an
appropriate cardiac pump. Rodney removed the synHeart
and, as he walked out of the clammy-smelling storeroom, he
was tempted to toss the organ up in the air and try to catch it
when it came back down. But he restrained himself--as
always, Supervisor might be watching.
"Out of useless death, we create Service to mankind," said
the inscription above the elevator doors--a quote attributed
to Francois Nathans, the magnate of Resurrection, Inc.
Rodney suddenly noticed the quote again after two years of
working in the lower levels, and he wasn't quite sure whether
to take it with a liberal dose of seriousness or irreverence.
Certain criteria had to be met before Rodney could even
begin the resurrection process, and the Enforcers didn't
always know what they were doing when they brought the
bodies in. Rodney rejected some of the pre-Servants if they
had been too badly mangled, or if rigor had set in too firmly.
A potential Servant generally had to be the victim of a sudden
death--if a person died from a debilitating disease or old age,
the machinery of the body would already be damaged. And
Rodney Quick was not about to spend all his waking hours
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