![]() At least that’s what he’d thought until this last week. Roy would die and this alchemy would die with him. Nobody else needed this hanging over their head. His alchemy was supposed to be one-of-a-kind. You sure you don’t wanna ask about something else?” If you wouldn’t mind telling me about it.” “Oh, you wanna know about that thing?” The confusion on her face was something he wasn’t expecting but given the fact she had displayed no ability to filter her emotions before he decided that she truly believed it wasn’t a big deal. It seemed that Edith was taking everything he said as a personal challenge. She took a drink of her cocktail this time. Roy watched the mirth in her eye dance in front of him. Roy took this as his opportunity, “I have one question.” All of the people that lived here genuinely believed in the military. That was more disdain for the country than he’d seen in a while. Honestly, the grimace on her face spoke for itself but she spoke anyway, “I couldn’t care less about Amestris and her interests. The laugh lines that had been there a second ago vanished. ![]() ![]() “Yeah, why did you decide to become an alchemist?”Įd wore her heart on her sleeve. The waitress had dropped the drinks off shortly after Ed’s outburst and, after she took a drink of water, she spoke, “So, I’ve been doing a lot of the talking. He didn’t intend it to be funny but based solely on the hearty laugh spilling out of Edith, he was pretty sure she found it extremely funny. “Hardly,” Roy took her obvious bait and tried for something earnest, “I just want to remember more of you.” “Can I get water and a Rob Roy on the rocks,” Ed smiled at him when she ordered it too. Roy wasn’t sure what to ask next, well he had about a hundred things he wanted to ask, but which one should he ask first? He disguised his hesitance with a sip of his drink and was about to ask about the alchemy when the waiter came back by, “I see she finally arrived! What can I get you, Ma’am?” Just the other day an elderly Xingese man came in, he speaks a completely different dialect than I learned when I went, and he just wanted someone to talk to and now he’s teaching me his language.” I always have and now I get to help people for a living! It’s amazing. She’s an alchemist, she cooks, she’s beautiful, she builds sustainable housing for the poor. She builds sustainable housing for the poor. It took a little longer than I was hoping to finish the last house.” Simply put, a lot of people don’t like Alchemy so we accommodate the best we can so today was a build day. It also means that they have encounters with the military a lot. “I was getting to that part,” Edith chided before continuing, “We work generally with the poor, but here in Central that usually means people who don’t know Amestrian. The smile she gave him was so genuine the only way he could think to describe it was such a cliche blinding, “Thanks! Anyway, I work at this non-profit and it was construction day but I couldn’t use alchemy-” “Sure! I work at a non-profit in the city,” Edith got distracted trying to pry a piece of drywall that was stuck in her hair and before he could stop himself Roy reached over and fixed it for her. She laughed like it was a joke and Roy could help the relief he felt in his chest at her, albeit delayed, appearance, “Can I ask why you were late?” I didn’t realize this place would be so ritzy.” She looked him up and down, “Jeez, sorry about the work clothes. Still, they looked better than the mess she made of her jeans. She had dust and paint all over her shirt and face. When Roy looked up he saw how much of a mess she was. “But I just got here,” Edith was out of breath. When someone walked by the table he didn’t look up from his drink, “I’ll take the check.” If the waiter came by with that sad expression on her face he was going to lose what little pride he had left. Fashionably late always looked better than early. Roy didn't know what he was expecting, but it wasn’t getting stood up.ĭinner at 7 meant Roy was ready at the restaurant five minutes late.
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