"I woke up on the beach. Apparently that's the arrival de rigueur. You came from a town named Purgatory?"

There's a note of irony in her voice when she asks the question. It's hard not to feel a little bit like this woman, whoever she is, is in the middle of a satire. "I'm Athena, most recently of Virginia, outside of DC."

She doesn't bother to give the name of the town--more people recognize DC than ever do where she actually lives. "What's your name?"