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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.                                       .   
                                                              
           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.           
           cerberus bodies are born.                     ¨    
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