Over a thousand years old

'This recording is old. A thousand years or more.’
The adepts took the body parts from their containers and began to assemble them on the altar. The adepts had long given up their humanity. Their limbs were wrapped with ribbed bundles of artificial muscle and their grainy grey skin was stretched over long, equine skulls that grinned as they went about their work. Servo-arms tipped with syringes injected each part as it was laid on the altar and gradually a naked human form took shape. It could have been male or female – it was like a doll or a mannequin, without any features that might give it an identity. The head held the only distinguishing features, for the nose was long and straight, the eyes small, the mouth a thin severe line.

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