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,,,,§§§§§, veiled motives.                          ,§§§,,,§§,
                                                              
           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.                                ^     
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           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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