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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.
§ 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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