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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.                                           
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           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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