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§.§.§.§.§§ there  is  another  company.  a climbing §.§.§.§.§.
§.§.§.§..§ and penetrating vine. it's in  the rocky §.§.§.§.§.
§.§.§.§.§§ plains,  it's  inside  the  hills,  it's §.§.§.§.§.
§.§.§.§..§ deep below.  glistening silver  burrows, §.§.§.§.§.
§.§.§.§.§§ red-pink   logo,   unclear  nationality, §.§.§.§.§.
§.§.§.§..§ veiled motives.                          §.§.§.§.§.
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           a  cave  company,  a  magician  company.           
 ,         sharpest    knife,     cutest     knife.           
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           we   will  grow   humans   in   pea-pods           
                                                              
 †         shimmering     sound-card     emergence,           
           something   there   on  the   shore   of           
      ,    turtle beach.  the  primordial  soup  of           
           the  digital,  waves  in   dithering  of           
           third-rate  dac's,  caressing the  sand,           
 .         bringing  things up  from the depths  of     .     
           the circuit. and  there, deposited:  the          .
           first   seed   crystal   of   artificial           
           intelligence.                                     ,
                                                              
           this  changes  everything,  of   course.           
                                                              
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           the  company  is  named  for it's  first           
           product,  the  orbital  mirror,  both  a           
           passive  sentinel and an  active  torch:    ,      
           set  to  it's  widest  configuration  it           
   †       will light  up  a whole city  at  night,           
           and at its narrowest it  becomes a laser     .     
           to  cut   through  mountain  and  metal.           
                                                              
.          still  unsold  prototypes  by  the  time           
           when  that something was  found  on that  †        
           beach, now the mirrors  are all  used to           
           beam   energy    at    different    mirr           
           implements,  as  a  rather   static  and        .  
           boring  power source. (and subtle threat           
,          of violence.)                                      
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 .         the  ai  is   a  coral.  they  grow   it         , 
           (crystal oil,  lead glass,  gentle laser           
           curtains)  only to carve  it  apart  and      .    
 †         section  it.  to   become   conditioned,    †      
           refractured,  grown  again.  deliciously       .   
           honed.  mirr  sinks  further  below  the           
           surface.                                           
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           whispers  now,  about  featherbite... is     ,     
           she  a real person? or is  this the mirr           
           ai, being unleashed upon the  youth? and          .
           another  conspiracy  theory  about there           
           not actually being  any human  employees           
           left.                                              
                                                              
           in  the  meantime,  dubious   creations.  ,        
           cerberus bodies are born.                     .    
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