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. A Cave Company, A Magician Company.
Sharpest Knife, Cutest Knife.
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. 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
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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.
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Cerberus Bodies Are Born. .
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