♨ Nine Apples and Cinnamon - Action ♨

[crytearsofjoy]

[After a few days of shutting herself in her room, and trying to figure out if the Closed Space was all just a dream, Winry can be found not at the smithy --no, she's too afraid to check up on it just yet-- but at the front of house 23. In shorts and and sports bra, (this sans the baseball equipment) she pulls the weeds out of her strawberry garden

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[themoonuplifts]

[Usagi was coming over to visit Alphonse, but stops by the garden when she spots Winry.]

Hey there, Winry.

[wings_thatwait]

[The dirt and calloused covered hands freeze when Winry hears Usagi's voice. Not too long ago she was comforting Al because of her death. Winry still wasn't used to this whole coming-back-from-the-dead thing. Slowly she moves her gaze up from the garden to the other blond.]

U-Usagi...

[themoonuplifts]

[Usagi gives the girl a soft smile, and kneels down next to her. She didn't mind getting her sundress a little dirty.]

Need any help? [She would have made a joke about seeing a ghost, but didn't feel it was appropriate.]

[crytearsofjoy]

Sure. I mean... I don't mind, but only if you want to.

[themoonuplifts]

Wouldn't ask if I didn't, Winry. [hello, helping pulling weeds out here.] How have you been doing?

[crytearsofjoy]

Just fine. [Better than you in any case.] Have you seen Al recently?

[themoonuplifts]

[She gives a hum at Winry's response, not one she quite liked, but left it alone.] I have. I think things have been a little hard on him lately.

[crytearsofjoy]

Mm. [She rips out a dandelion.] It's good to see you back, though.

[themoonuplifts]

Thank you, Winry. [she wipes her hands on her dress, just to get some of that dirt off of them.] I hear you've been gone for a little while, too.

[crytearsofjoy]

Yeah I don't- It was so weird.

[themoonuplifts]

I bet it was. A dull, lifeless world... [Usagi wouldn't know how to handle that.]

[crytearsofjoy]

Yeah very gre- [Wait a minute.]

How'd you know?

[themoonuplifts]

People are talking about it, you know. [...And maybe someone from long ago, before she'd really joined the Brigade, gave her some information.]

[crytearsofjoy]

[Winry scratches the back of her neck.] They are? O-oh.

[themoonuplifts]

I'm glad everyone came back all right.

[wings_thatwait]

They did? Luka, and Alice, and-

[...] And Haruki?