I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to correct you—I was merely being factual. They are both what I would call short stories (although there are plenty of people now who consider anything over 1000 words to be long and burdensome), so I don't think you were incorrect in calling them "roughly of a size."

Maybe I'm just immune to Penumbra's magic in my current state of mind. I didn't get anything cosmic out of their finally declaring themselves (and I nearly always skim over the sex), they both just seemed high as kites. But I tend to roll my eyes at the whole mystical union destiny thing, don't I? The only story where that worked for me was OMaN's story, "El Quinto Sol," where I thought the sex really was transcendent and matched up with the spiritual state they were supposed to be in. And Darwin's story, "Ceremony." That might be it. I thought Scully was very amusing stoned out of her mind.

I thought the last line was good but rather ominous. I guess I should go figure out the season of the episode, because I've forgotten. Was it seven? I guess then it's referring to Mulder's abduction.

Edit: No, it's six, so I have no idea what she's referring to. Maybe Mulder's mysterious brain disease.