[ 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 .

John stood over the cot, forehead so furrowed you could hide a medium-sized tank in it. That was John, though, always suspicious. Always looking for the nasty surprise. Always searching for a cloud to go with whatever silver lining had discovered him. He turned to me. 
 
 > Are you sure? 
 
 I checked the computer again. 99.4 %, `` Bites People''. I nodded. I waved my hand in front of the little chubby face looking up at me, and she bared a gummy mouth and started snapping her jaws together. 
 
 > Pretty sure, yeah. 
 
 This changed everything. 
 
 We'd only had the naming computer for a few years. It was a blessing, really. Every child was offered a name by the computer, and most people took it. If you met a kid named `` Kyle'' these days you'd just be worried about what their computer name was. Were they `` Betrays Friends''? `` Gives Away Position''? `` Farts in Bunkers''? 
 
 We all knew it would change the course of the war. Children named `` Natural Leader'', `` Master Tactician'', `` Dodges Well'' and `` Handy Sniper'' had all been whisked away with their parents to some secretive location. It dawned on me that I was about to join them. 
 
 > What do you think it means? Bites *only* people? Or bites people *and* other... things? 
 
 It was my turn with the furrowed brow. 
 
 > Only one way to find out, Commander Connor. 
 
 We brought in the Terminator. Arms and legs removed after capture, it had been an invaluable asset to learn from. Now, it was a way to tell if we finally had a foolproof way to tell them from us. 
 
 We moved it into position...
