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OCR: 23 *********************** Facing a white ceiling in a room one floor below ground-level the Yldra lay on its back. It was approximately three and a half foot tall, hairless and sexless. As were all of the ninety like it who'd been removed from beneath Westminster Abbey. Also like them, the newcomer had perfectly smooth light grey skin, similar to that of a dolphin. It was cold to the touch and still as a corpse, though far from dead. Banded nylon restraints secured its wrists and ankles to what was undoubtedly the world's most expensive bed. Part medical scanner part instrument of resurrection, its use had been halted when the results of x-ray and pathology laboratory tests had yielded startling results. In the small observation chamber overlooking the sealed room chosen for Project Yldra ...