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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.                                           
                                                              
           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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