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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
The Circuit. And There, Deposited: The
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.
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.
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