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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      ,    
           the  circuit. and there, deposited:  the           
        ,  first   seed   crystal   of   artificial           
           intelligence.                                      
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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.           
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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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