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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.           
                                                              
           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.           
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           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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