"We didn't stay in Craiger long," she says with a shrug, like it's not a big deal. But it is a big deal, and she can't entirely ignore it-- she hasn't really known Mulder very long but chances are good he'd suss it out, left to his own devices, just out of a sheer need to know everything that can be known.

"I think my parents stopped feeling safe. That autumn there were a series of murders," she admits. "We didn't even finish out the school year."