[ WP ] : Children are named by the traits they are fated to have - Brave , Serene , Deeply Caring , Unmoved - and of course your lovely daughter , Bites People .

In my culture, we go to the Elders to be named. They look into us and see what we are to become as we grow, and we are named accordingly. 
 
 Now, my specific family live on the fringes of society. There is a reason for that, of course. We live off of our society, in a way; it does not benefit us to be close to anyone outside of our little family. 
 
 We avoid being named names that would'out' us - `` Blood sucker'', `` Kills people for food'', that sort of thing by a certain practice wherein the mother holds a specific modesty through pregnancy which suppresses our nature past what our elders can psychically detect. It just works, so we do n't question it. 
 
 However, I caught my husband cheating on me in my second trimester. I guess he could psychically suppress being named `` Cheats on pregnant women''. The stress of the separation put me in such a state that through much of the pregnancy I had little to no composure, regardless of the grace I was tasked to handle this transition with. 
 
 So here I am. I did my best, but the Elder furrowed his brow before he looked up at me to bestow, officially, my daughter's name. I knew at the first sign of the micro-expression of confusion my whole family was fucked. 
 
 `` Her name is....'' Pause. 
 `` Her name is'Bites People'.'' At this I had to laugh, of all of the things that could have been picked to describe what my people do..... 
 
 But the mirth of course did not last long, since they knew immediately who I was, who ( and what ) we were. So here I am now, on the lam, single, with an infant that is carrying the most ridiculous name I've ever heard. 

