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&,&&,&,,&, ########   #   ##  ##  #  ###  #  ###### ,&,&,,&,&,
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&,,&,&,&&, and  penetrating vine. it's in the rocky ,&,&,&&,&,
&,&&,&,,&, plains,  it's  inside  the  hills,  it's ,&,&,,&,&,
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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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