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Mulder looked up into the sky and there were none of the
emotions in his eyes that Scully had expected. She would have thought he’d
be triumphant, overwhelmed, full of victorious feelings that his theories
were finally proven true, proclaiming to the world he had been right all
along. Maybe she had even expected him to be afraid, terrified by the sheer
substance of this proof. But all Mulder displayed were an eerie inner calm
reflected in his eyes and a passiveness that frightened her more than anything
else.
Her own emotions were a mixture of fear and fascination,
both warring inside her to get the upper hand, but none of them winning.
She had always been a sceptic. Not any longer. Not any more.
„I knew it, Scully," Mulder whispered, his voice calm
and too level for her own liking. But yes, he had always known it, she
thought. Always.
And above them hung the monsterous shape, fifteen miles in diameter; mysterious, powerful—and alien.
Today was the second of July......