"You say he's not a cultist, but that sounds like something cults do to me," she retorts. "Some young virgins willingly choose sacrifice."

She slows for a moment as they reach a fork in the tunnel, then randomly picks a direction and surges ahead, though it may or may not be the direction that Malcolm wants. Realizing that his incomplete knowledge of Greek might lead him to not know what a virgin is, she adds in a few synonyms: "Young maidens. Young girls."