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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 %
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Bringing Things Up From The Depths Of
The Circuit. And There, Deposited: The
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Product, The Orbital Mirror, Both A
Passive Sentinel And An Active Torch:
Set To It'S Widest Configuration It .
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And At Its Narrowest It Becomes A Laser .
To Cut Through Mountain And Metal.
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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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(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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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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