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A Cave Company, A Magician Company.
~ Sharpest Knife, Cutest Knife.
. 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
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First Seed Crystal Of Artificial
Intelligence.
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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.
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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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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
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