[ dream # 15 ] Canon Update

[daydreamerxing]

MR.EDWARD!!!!!!!!

[ May wakes up from droning, screaming. Then quietly shuts up when she realizes where she is. ]

H-here... Mayfield again....

I need... I need to call... no, find, Mr.Edward... Al...  Alphonse...

why...

[ She curls up in the bed and cries quietly.

May will probably be skipping school for a day. ]

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[wristsniper]

[Mom hears crying and goes to investigate.]

May?

[daydreamerxing]

[ May turns and sighs. It seems like she was the only one who left and came back. ]

Um... Miss General Armstrong, ma'am.

I'm sorry, that was... I shouldn't have screamed.

[wristsniper]

You were droned. What happened?

[She actually goes and sits down beside May. This is as motherly as she gets.]

[daydreamerxing]

I...

I went back home... Things aren't looking too good.

[wristsniper]

[Olivier's eyes widen.] Home?

Amestris? How long? What did you see?

[daydreamerxing]

[ Opening up to Olivier seems okay. Someone ought to know, at least. ]

... Those homunculus started that plan of theirs... Things got bad fast, and then and then... Mr.Al...

[wristsniper]

[Perhaps it's because she wasn't there, not in that battle. Perhaps because she already knew some of it. Maybe because she's just immovable.]

Did people die?

I won't tell the brothers. But I'd like to know.

[daydreamerxing]

... I went down to the basement.... I didn't see... death of anyone I knew, b-but...

Mr.Al... he

[ She's clearly about to cry. ]

I'm sure... given how Central city looks, I sure there can't be no casualties...

[wristsniper]

[Being a big sister, Olivier has a slight urge to actually comfort May... But she can't. She can't show that weakness.]

Alphonse was hurt?

[Central... Her city. Destroyed. But May was a foreigner. She wouldn't know landmarks...]

[daydreamerxing]

Not hurt... exactly.

I helped him... to get Mr.Edward's arm back so he could fight, I helped him... give back what Mr.Edward lost his arm to gain...

[ Not crying. Yet. She's trying hard to be strong. ]

[wristsniper]

[She thinks in silence for a few moments... The brothers' story is still imprinted on her mind. She knows the implications.]

Was I there?

[daydreamerxing]

I didn't see you there...

[wristsniper]

[The answer is inconclusive.]

Were you all winning?

[daydreamerxing]

[ May straightens a bit at the question, and clenches her fists. ]

We will win. It doesn't matter the situation...

[wristsniper]

[Olivier puts an arm around May, bracingly.]

We still have the power to change things. I've seen all manner of extraordinary things happen in my lifetime. The thought of someone returning from a sacrifice doesn't even make me blink.

Not anymore.