[Voice]

[ufo_fanboy]

[The voice of Mulder comes on, complete with the sound of him chewing gum.]

If you knew the meaning of existence, but had no way to decipher it, what would you do? Hypothetically. [This whole thing is DRIVING HIM CRAZY. Having the ultimate answer right there just out of reach does that to him.]You know... for all my experience with psychics, the

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[Voice]

[consultmybooks]

...do horses count as farm animals?

...and who on Earth is Scully?

[Here we go again...really, though, it's almost a relief to hear Mulder's voice. The man has a way of either helping experiments make sense or just making them look saner by comparison.]

[Voice]

[ufo_fanboy]

Close enough. Have you ever known farm animals to stalk anyone before?

[This is a perfectly reasonable question, he swears.]

Oh, Scully's my partner from back home. The Malnosso just did her their idea of a favor and brought her here with the last cycle.

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[consultmybooks]

...on occasion, yes. Generally the smaller ones, though. Chickens, and the like.

[He's heard less reasonable questions by a very long shot. Carry on, Mulder.]

...I look forward to meeting her. She sounds like an interesting sort of person.

[Voice]

[ufo_fanboy]

So in your experience goats don't tend to stalk people?

[Good, good, nothing too insane on the scale here then.]

You'd get along, I'll have to introduce you sometime. She's a lot more... skeptical, than I am - [Ok, so that's MOST PEOPLE.] - but I have a feeling this place will open her mind. Plus, it always helps to have a doctor in the house.

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[consultmybooks]

No. Attack and headbutt, yes, but actual stalking is a new one on me.

[Nope. You are still in the clear, Mulder.]

This place has a way of doing that to people. Opening their minds, I mean. You know the sort of world I come from, and even I've learned a few new things.

[The existence of aliens, for one.]

[Voice]

[ufo_fanboy]

[Oh, good. Not that he expected Giles to think him too crazy.]

Maybe I did something to this goat in a past life and it's only now seeking revenge.

[Totally plausible he thinks.]

I only wish it didn't have to be like this. There are better ways I could have chosen to open her mind than experimentation and kidnapping.

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[consultmybooks]

If we had ghosts here, I'd suspect a haunting with that very same motivation. But as far as I know, we don't. Or if we do, they're exceptionally placid.

Have you had much to do with goats in the past, then.

[Voice]

[ufo_fanboy]

It's funny you would mention ghosts...

...as for the goat, I have no idea. I've never wronged any farm animals in any way that I can think of.

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[consultmybooks]

Funny I would mention ghosts? Was there something about ghosts?

[Mulder, it never ends with you, does it?]

[Voice]

[ufo_fanboy]

Oh, it's just that I've acquired this new power to see dead people from my world. Not that I mind too much, most of them are pretty good conversationalists. It's a hell of a surprise when they first appear, though.

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[consultmybooks]

Just...spontaneously acquired this power, then? Woke up with the ability to see dead people?

And they're just people from your world, then?

[Voice]

[ufo_fanboy]

Yeah. I'm pretty sure it was the 'superpower' I gained when that spider bit me. So much for shooting out cobwebs or x-ray vision...

They're all people from my world, so far. People who were of importance to me somehow.

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[consultmybooks]

...I'm sorry.

[For the spider bite or the visions? Hard to say. Probably for both.]

[Voice]

[ufo_fanboy]

It's all right. It's actually been rather fascinating, for most of them. Old contacts, people who once gave me important information...

[Though talking to his father again, that was awkward.]