Yevgeni Cento

Bonecutter and natalist on Extrasolarian March Station. Proprietor of Cento's Biotechnic,Biotechnic, "the number one leader in genetic recombination therapy and organic implant technology."

The speaker was a small, rat-faced little man with a pigeon chest and round shoulders. Not a visage to inspire confidence in a genetic surgeon, though I supposed the strange man had his reasons. He wore a device like a jeweler’s glass over one eye, though whether it was only a device or part of him I could not say, and when he smiled—which was constantly—it was to reveal teeth the color of gunmetal. Seeing me, he stopped. “Solnech?” he asked aloud. “This is Imperial, yes? No mistaking it. The height of this!” He raised a hand above his head to indicate how tall I was. “Patrician? No no. Palatine!” His one visible eye widened. “What is bringing palatine to Cento?”

I flashed Crim a look. No use trying to hide what I was from a geneticist, after all.

“You’re Doctor Cento?”

“Yevgeni Cento, geneticist.” He thrust out a hand, and it was only after I’d taken it that I realized the skin there was smoother and more pink than the weathered dun of his face. Younger. “What is it the palatine wants?” He was clearly Lothrian, or had been, and had that disconcerting Lothrian habit of eliding pronouns from his speech. “And is the palatine having a name?”

Howling Dark, Chapter 20: The Bonecutter

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Empire of Silence

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Howling Dark

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Chapter 20

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Demon in White

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Kingdoms of Death

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Ashes of Man

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Disquiet Gods

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Shadows Upon Time

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