Projection? Her eyebrows shoot up and then narrow in annoyance, and she drops her hand. So much for polite introductions.

"I was just asking. You know, so I'd get it right." She scowls. "And there's nothing wrong with my name. Lots of people have names like that." True, they're not usually named after states, or codenames assigned by shady military outfits, but that's beside the point.