TITLE: In Starlight: Mulder
AUTHOR: stellar_dust
EMAIL: stellar_dust_x@yahoo.com
WEBSITE: http://xfiles.katycat.net/
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SPOILERS: Conduit, Closure; post-col
RATING: PG
CHALLENGE: Rituals
WORD COUNT: 100
DISCLAIMER: not mine
SUMMARY: Finding Samantha, every day.
DATE: 11/02/2004
NOTE: This is part of my post-col drabbleverse that 
started with 'The City and the Stars.'


When I was young, I had a ritual: every night I'd 
close my eyes, walk into Samantha's room, and pretend 
she'd be there when I opened them.

Decades passed before I stopped walking into that 
room.  

I have a different ritual now.

Skinner looks at me wryly and heads back to camp.  I 
finish my drink and tear my eyes from the city's 
glow.  No clouds tonight; the cosmos reels dizzyingly 
around me as I fall up, infinitely through time, and 
every constellation has her face.

Samantha's room is the universe; she's always there.  
I'm content.

Tonight, she's smiling back.