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    “Okay.” Jackie blinks. “Can we, uh, rewind? What you said about why it took so long while I was outside. This… uhm… parallel thing”

    “Our joining?”

    “I think so, yeah.”

    Lottie nods with understanding. “An oversight. Apologies. We couldn’t exactly find the right words for it, since it’s hard to explain an experience you aren’t part of.”

    “Oh. Okay.” Jackie raises her arms to hug herself. A chill creeps up her spine. “What do you mean?”

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    In true X-Files fashion, the Joining happens sometime in the fall of 1996.

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