Array 088 [Video]

[bloodseal_soul]

[The PCD is dangling from a thong around Alphonse's elbow. The teenager is dressed in normal jeans and a t-shirt, slogging through the thigh-deep, muddy water that's flooding the riverbank, holding onto the branches of the trees that managed to make it through the storm. Determinedly and almost losing a shoe several times, Alphonse makes it to a

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[brig_gen_maes]

Nicely done, Al.

When you've got time, there was some damage to the greenhouse. I might be able to grab Alex or Roy first, though, so it's not a priority.

[bloodseal_soul]

Thanks, Maes.

... I wonder what the Major would do with the greenhouse...

Ah! Are your plants ruined?

[brig_gen_maes]

You're welcome.

There's probably some traditional means of fixing glass! That will wind up with Armstrong likenesses all over the place..

Only the onions. The rest I saved with tarps and buckets and creativity.

[bloodseal_soul]

Well, at least no one can complain for lack of decoration...

You really are amazing when anything involves Elysia, aren't you, Maes?

[brig_gen_maes]

Well, yes.

I am! I'm amazing other times too!

[bloodseal_soul]

Like when you helped me out at the Incursion. When I needed you, you were there.

[brig_gen_maes]

I... I was late. But... I'm glad I wasn't too late. Thank you, Al.

[bloodseal_soul]

You weren't late, I was just early.

You were there... that's what matters to me.

[brig_gen_maes]

Right. We should work on our timing.

I'm glad I was there for you. It's important to me too.

[bloodseal_soul]

Or I should just, y'know, stop getting hit with bullets.

... do you still worry about that?

[brig_gen_maes]

Me too. Let's quit bullets together!

Yes. I know that I can't be there forever. I want to make sure I do what I can, while I can.

[bloodseal_soul]

Yes!

... Maes, don't talk like that, okay? This place is different. Very different.

[brig_gen_maes]

Long live the no more bullets club!

All right, Al. It is. And it's a good different, in a lot of ways. Rough in others, but good overall.

[bloodseal_soul]

Should I be worried? This is a little macabre, but...

We're in the same boat, too, so hush.

[brig_gen_maes]

It's gallows humor. Why not play with it?

Boat? Is it a kayak? I'm fond of kayaks.

[bloodseal_soul]

[Al just starts giggling, and can't stop. The tension that's seemed ever-present for several months now seems to have lifted, giving him room to breathe.]