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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.                          ¨§¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
                                                              
           a  cave  company,  a  magician  company.           
¨          sharpest     knife,     cutest    knife.           
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           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.                                      ,    
                                                              
           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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