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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.     %     
                                                              
           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.                                      
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           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.                                           
                                                              
           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.                                              
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           in  the   meantime,  dubious  creations.           
           cerberus bodies are born.                     ¨    
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