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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.                          ¨¨¨§¨§§§§§
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           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.                                              
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           In  The   Meantime,  Dubious  Creations.           
           Cerberus Bodies Are Born.                     ¨    
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