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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    ¨      
                                                              
    ¨      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.                                           
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           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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           in  the  meantime,  dubious   creations.           
           cerberus bodies are born.                     ¨    
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