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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           
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           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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