..«††$§@##                                          ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@#                                          #@§$††«...
..«††$§@##                                          ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@###                                          ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@##                                          ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@# †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† #@§$††«...
..«††$§@## « « «  «  « « «  «  « « « « « « « «  « « ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@### †     †      †      †     †     †      † ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@## †              featherbite             † ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@# †       †      †      †         †      † #@§$††«...
..«††$§@## « « « « « « « « «  « « «  « «  « «  «  « ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@### †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††† ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@##                                          ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@#     virtual popstar with mirr-branded    #@§$††«...
..«††$§@## gloves, reaching  out from shadowy  data ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@### centeres,  with  a  sly  grin.  she will ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@## take   your  hand   if   you   let  her. ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@#           she will not let go.           #@§$††«...
..«††$§@##                                          ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@### but before  any of this is possible, you ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@## must earn some  personal  time  together ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@# with the world's most famous influencer! #@§$††«...
..«††$§@##                                          ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@### ~§                                    §~ ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@## @@@§§««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««§§@@@ ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@# ~§                                    §~ #@§$††«...
..«††$§@##                                          ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@### most  people are aware that she's a mirr ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@##  company product, though their relation  ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@# is  somewhat  unclear.  there   is  avid #@§$††«...
..«††$§@## speculation  into who's her  actor, many ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@### believing  there to  me more  than  one. ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@## what   they   don't    know    is   that ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@#          featherbite is an ai.           #@§$††«...
..«††$§@##                                          ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@###     years of relentless training, of     ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@## grinding  test  audiences  to  dust, and ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@# here  is now  this  program  running  on #@§$††«...
..«††$§@## mirr's supercluster, trained to amass  a ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@###  dedicated and affectable audience. her  ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@##        appearance, her voice, her        ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@#  mannierisms... are weapons, pointed at  #@§$††«...
..«††$§@##     the public, instilling addiction,    ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@###         dependence, and loyalty.         ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@##                                          ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@# ~§                                    §~ #@§$††«...
..«††$§@## @@@§§««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««§§@@@ ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@### ~§                                    §~ ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@##                                          ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@#  featherbite's social media accounts are #@§$††«...
..«††$§@##     constantly pushing for donations,    ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@### recommending her  to friends,  or  other ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@## contributions. at  the center of this is ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@# an  official  fanclub,  operating  on  a #@§$††«...
..«††$§@##     system of reward and punishment.     ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@###                                          ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@## those who play  along will  be  rewarded ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@# with  larger  perks, while those who are #@§$††«...
..«††$§@##      uncooperative or try to expose      ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@### featherbite  will be  punished.  due  to ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@## the  addictive  nature  of  exposure  to ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@#   featherbite, being denied access at    #@§$††«...
..«††$§@## this   stage  often   leads  to  painful ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@### withdrawal.  just  the  threat of it  is ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@##                effective.                ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@#                                          #@§$††«...
..«††$§@##                                          ##@§$††«..
.«††$§@###                                          ###@§$††«.
..«††$§@##                                          ##@§$††«..
...«††$§@#                                          #@§$††«...