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