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