‘Jimmy's been picking up on it, at the base. The neural netting all the recruits get, it diagnostics their cerebellum, speech movements and eye fluttering first. So we can learn how they speak - consciously, subconsciously, verbally, everything. Lately all the kids - the language they use, it’s similar to computer terms, things programmers would say to diagnose a computing problem, except these kids are applying the terms to themselves. He thinks they were premodded, Sal, some of them, birth to now. Already part computer, if not physically, in how they learn and communicate with the world. Jimmy thinks it's a subcoding program, something Sentient, something slowly watching and modifying these recruits, from the other side of the screen.’