A few of these books feature nudity, it turns out. He catches sight of the book she's looking at and the way she puts it back fast. Religious and also kind of a prude. The profile's coming together.

"How hard is it to develop those?" he asks, a little humor in the question. It doesn't seem likely; if psychic abilities exist, something he's willing to leave room for in his cosmology, they exist for other people. Not for members of the Mulder family. Interesting things happen to them, objectively speaking, but never good-interesting. Always life-changing-and-terrible-interesting.