Mulder's brows rise, but they've already come this far. Just a little further, and she'll get the whole truth - though he's not sure he'll need to elaborate too much.

It occurs to him briefly that she spent some of her youth on the East Coast. Could she know about the case? Under other circumstances, maybe he'd suspect her of fashioning a narrative based on something like cold reading - but she's just too convincing here. He knows her too well, probably; while she's not beyond trying to pull a fast one on him, that's not what's happening here.

"What does the Sun represent?" he asks. Guessing isn't hard - there's a palpable joy in the artwork - but where it fits in with sacrificed children, he's not sure.