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[Things have settled down. Between experiments, amusement parks, abductions and drafts, this is the first nice calm stretch of time he's had in a while. So Mulder's hanging out in the Battle Dome. He's been coming there a lot more lately. The new features interest him, and there are places from home he can't help revisiting. Not always to fight, since it's no longer required, though he throws those scenarios in sometimes too. But mostly he's in there obsessively going back through particular scenes.]

[At the moment, Mulder can be seen sitting in the living room where Samantha disappeared from. The board game Stratego is still set up in place near him, the game left unfinished. It's exactly as the room looked all those years ago. A blinding bright light flashes somewhere in the background.]

I wonder what determines the point in time we're taken from? It appears entirely random from all that I've encountered so far. Almost like someone's throwing darts at a timeline or choosing those times out of a hat. A really ugly hat. I also wonder... why some people are brought here after death. [Jonathan. Gem. ...Sigh.] It doesn't seem fair, to grant someone a new life only to throw them back eventually anyway.

...speaking of that, I've been curious about something for a while. [And needing to expand his files, he's already delved into kidnappings, revival has always been somewhere on his list too.] If anyone who's died before, either here or at home, wouldn't mind indulging me for a couple of questions? I won't ask how it happened or anything, just... some related details on the topic. Thanks in advance.

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Ok, and did you ever get a chance to discuss this matter with him?

[If it was a friend of Mulder's he'd totally be pestering him all the time about the experience.]

A little, but it was naturally a touchy subject. He gave his all to get revenge on the person who caused his daughter's death and it gained him nothing in the end....

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That's not right. I hope that you managed to avenge him, anyway.

[Mulder can definitely get behind the idea of revenge, and especially taking it into one's own hands.]

We did...eventually. Though it was more about saving our world from someone who wanted to kill us all rather than pure vengeance.

Yeah, people like that can really ruin your day.

This person who came here... did he notice anything unusual about himself when he arrived here? Or did you notice anything unusual? Did he seem like the same basic person overall?

If he did, he never mentioned it to us. I didn't see anything unusual; he seemed as he always was, minus the wings, of course. I wonder why they brought him in as an elderly man, rather than being in his prime. You'd think since it's possible for people to arrive from different times....

...You'd think. That's what bugs me, that inconsistency. Some people are brought in alive and well, some as adults, some children, some old... and some past death. I suppose they may have done do deliberately for variability. Unless it really is random how we're brought here.

Ok, back to your friend though... So aside from seeming to be the same person overall, there was nothing at all amiss? No abnormalities, or... well, penalties?

No, none. The only penalties people accumulate seem to be after they arrive here. Whatever happened before doesn't count, for that.

Yeah, and that's what I'm wondering. Is there some difference in the revival process that leads to that in one case and not in the other? Why do the penalties exist, anyway? Has there ever been much explanation offered beyond 'that's just the way it is'?

[He gives a little self-deprecating laugh.] ...and why do I always end up with more questions than when I started?

[A soft, amused sound.]

That's the way of investigations, I think.

From what I was told before, the Malnosso don't actually take us from our world; we just arrive here and they take advantage of our presence. So, it could be that they don't know the sort of revival process that those who previously died underwent upon first arriving. Their knowledge by comparison seems incomplete...hence losing something when we're revived.

It really is...

...Then they're unable to replicate whatever process revives people upon their arrival here? That... could make sense. That it's something beyond their capabilities.

I just wish there were some way to keep those people alive, rather than returning to the inevitable in their timelines.

Same here. So many of them deserve a second chance at life. Tellah did....

Everyone deserves a second chance. [But he knows plenty of exceptions.] Most everyone.

With the exception those whose goal is worldwide destruction, at the very least.

People who treat others like they're less than human go in that list too.

You mean deny them their free will, don't you? I don't see how human life has more or less value than other races.

Human life, alien life, whatever it is... it pisses me off when someone devalues it. There are a lot of people who do that to others, back in my world.

That's happened in my world, too. I hate to see it, wherever it happens.

That's one thing that's unfortunately universal between all worlds, as far as I've encountered.

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