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comrades, rubbing his hands together. "Yes—that could very well be the case.""That's more of a retreat than an answer," observed Melissa, expecting someretaliation."And that's true as well," the old man conceded, "but I've seen too much of suchdeception during my service to the Church to dismiss it. There is another possibility,albeit it would still serve that same purpose.""What's that?" asked Brian, intrigued."That your healing was not what it seemed to benot that it wasn't real, mind you.We can all testify to that.""Then what do you mean?""That it was designed to make you think the power came from Adam when itdidn't.""Now I really have heard everything," Melissa derided him. "We all saw it. Brianfelt it, for God's sake just own up to it!""You're all overlooking some very important information information that allowsyou to dismiss my view too easily, facts that you just don't care to incorporate into yourposition," he challenged them."Okay, Sherlock, let's hear it," Deidre said brusquely."Fine, and then I won't trouble you any longer. What about the attempt onMelissa's life, Deidre? You of all people should be asking yourself why such an incidentwould occur. Have you fit it into your view of the goings on here?""I guess someone just doesn't like her," she shrugged. Father Benedict scowled ather."Okay, okay, it's weak, I know," she conceded quickly. "I guess the answer's no, Ihaven't thought about how what happened might be connected. And now that I am, nocorrelation comes to mind.""Are you now willing to surrender your interpretation of the Roswell event?"Andrew fired another question."No . . . no, I'm not, but I don't think the Roswell incident and what we're dealingwith here are necessarily related.""You mean you assume that they aren't related. Why are you so willing to believethat at Roswell the military used the ET angle as a prop to cover up heinous dealings withNazis, and yet so willing to believe there's a real ET presence here?""Because I saw a real-live alien! The thing scanned my mind, for God's sake.""Which brings up some other questions for you, Father," Melissa re-entered thediscussion. "How do you account for the mind scans, and what happened between youand Adam?""The mind scans are irrelevant," he defended himself. "If these beings are thedivine beings I suspect they are, such an activity is well within their abilities. The factthat they can do this sort of thing doesn't negate my view, or your own, I might add.Adam told me nothing and did nothing inside my head. In fact, his silence was disturbing.He couldn't answer any of my questions—questions that were basic to where he camefrom, to personhood, and to the universe's ultimate origin.""Maybe he wasn't interested," Deidre suggested. "He's a scientist, not aphilosopher.""Aren't you, as a scientist, interested in those things?"280