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§§§.§.§... red-pink   logo,  unclear   nationality, .§.....§..
§..§§§§§.. veiled motives.                          §§§....§§.
                                                              
           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           
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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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