With one word, everything changes. The slurs and the anti-meta hate take on new substance. Machiko feels her own pulse grow strong, her spirit begin to churn, to rage. She exerts herself to give no sign, to remain calm. She focuses on details she has seen in security files. Gamma, a name she knows. Like many such terrorists, he is "alleged" to be a male norm. Reputed to have been a leading figure in the shadowy Alamos 20K anti-meta terrorist organization. Believed responsible for directing and executing innumerable incidents of anti-meta violence across North America. A campaign of violence that began in 2036, when Machiko was little more than a child, with the napalm fire-bombing of a small community in rural Ohio, announcing the arrival of the New Terrorism. Machiko still remembers seeing tridcast images, the sight of an elven girl running nude up a country lane, her face a mask of agony, her body blazing with a fire that would not die.