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Sharpest Knife, Cutest Knife. ¨
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Shimmering Sound-Card Emergence,
Something There On The Shore Of
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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 ¨
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Beam Energy At Different Mirr .
Implements, As A Rather Static And
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The Ai Is A Coral. They Grow It
(Crystal Oil, Lead Glass, Gentle Laser .
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Section It. To Become Conditioned,
Refractured, Grown Again. Deliciously
Honed. Mirr Sinks Further Below The
Surface.
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Ai, Being Unleashed Upon The Youth? And
Another Conspiracy Theory About There
Not Actually Being Any Human Employees
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