To: Damien "Cobra" Morreti | From: Fiorella de Marco

[Reeves]

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Sender: Alliance Commander "Cobra"
Recipient: Fiorella Arianna de Marco
Subject: RE: Pale Mask

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My skepticism is rooted in no evidence to the contrary.

It's not like I don't lead an adventurous life or haven't seen my share of strange, bizarre, or poorly understood phenomenon. But not once have I ever experienced anything even remotely close to what many people claim to have personally seen, heard, or otherwise been given visions of.

The mind can play tricks on you when under sufficient stress, and I imagine coming face to face with cosmic unknowns can be quite harrowing for rookie spacers, hence their wildly imaginative recollections of what happened. But I'm not so easily unnerved.

I can appreciate science and faith for what they are. But superstition lives under justifiable exile in the corner, and what all this talk of ghosts and visions sounds like to me is just that. Superstitions that have been passed down through the generations and recounted enough times that they seem plausible if not outright true.

And if there's a grave then that means somebody wasted time putting that corpse in the ground. So you either have survivors there or one of your own just decided to be alarmingly sympathetic to a sworn enemy.

I'd wager it's the former.

"Liberty or death."
-"Cobra"

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