🅧 Please explain to me the scientific nature of 'the whammy'

[faithfulskeptic]

[ n a m e ; ]	Dana Katherine Scully
[ c a n o n ; ]	The X-Files
[ g a m e ; ]	spicy times in noctiumrp

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[bigfootfetish]

"Try me."

It's a gambit that might not pay off, but he's willing to try: sitting there, leaning toward her across the desk, a pleasant look on his face. He doesn't have her on the hook - that much is obvious - but if he lets her ruminate on it, maybe something unexpected will come out.

She's already shown a propensity for talking out the possibilities. Now he just needs her to think about the ones she didn't put in her report.

[faithfulskeptic]

For a long moment she just sits, silently, looking at him. Trying-- perhaps obviously-- to puzzle out what he's actually here for; what he's hoping to gain from this conversation. It's more than due diligence, showing up here to talk to her; either he's got no clue about this one, or he's fishing for something.

And she's got... nothing, she's got nothing. But saying so hasn't made him leave yet. She manages-- barely-- to bite back a sigh, and pulls her notebook from a drawer. Her report was thorough, but sometimes distance offers some clarity on conclusions. (Not that she believes there's anything here; but she'll think through it better with something in her hands.)

"I considered the possibility of a human assailant trying to make it seem like an animal attack, but the punctures seemed decisively organic, and there's no way a person could simulate the necessary jaw strength," she muses. "My best guess would be canine rather than feline, but that's just conjecture. Maybe-- a wolf-dog, trained to attack?"

She doesn't really sound convinced herself.

"If the autopsy were always enough, you wouldn't have much to do, Agent Mulder." She shrugs.