[ AU ] Central City, Amestris, 1918

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It had been several months since the Elric brothers had found themselves mysteriously awakened back home in Reizenbul. The whole thing had been a surprise to the both of them, and to the people of Amestris -- both were thought to be long gone after the War Between Worlds, and the closing of the Gate. If anyone noticed that Edward was a bit

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[wizard_errant]

When Dairine said she was going to do something, she did it. It was true when she was ten and said she'd take down anybody who messed with her sister. It was true when she was eleven and told the Lone Power It wasn't going to get the best of her. It was true when she was thirteen, and told Roshaun she'd dress up to meet his parents.

And it was true when she was sixteen and told Edward Elric that if they ever got off the island, she'd come and visit his world.

Amestris hadn't been hard to find, once she'd got home and Spot could access the universe again. It was just hard to get to. There was something about the place, apparently, that was not entirely healthy, and the entropy rating was too high for permanent Gate. Dairine thought she'd have to make one, but then, Skerret was the Master of the Crossings, and she pulled a few strings, and asked very nicely, and next thing she knew there was a one-person Gate to Central with her name on it

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Edward was surprised to find that even after years of absence, he still knew the roads and back-alley's of central as he had the day he'd left. He knew all the shortcuts to the train station, and the military center. The only real changes to the city had been aesthetic. A few updated faces, and the parliament building was back in use in the way it was intended to be.

For a moment, his thoughts were pulled back to the city, golden eyes roaming rooftops and freshly-painted plaster. It was easy to get lost is the crowds, and Edward blended in easily, due to his short stature. This also made it difficult to find anyone else in the crowd, and so he did not see the familliar red-haired girl and her computer several feet ahead, headed in the opposite direction.

[wizard_errant]

People in cities don't notice anything that doesn't talk to them first--this is, in Dairine's experience, a universal fact. Which is why she's not that worried about people noticing Spot, but still.

She's in front of an official-looking building with a wide set of stairs, and sinks down onto one of them to pull Spot onto her lap and let him work his location program.

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Edward slowed his steps, as he approached the building. Where once there had been a building, then nothing but ash, there stood a building once again. Central's first branch library (restricted, to military personell -- more specifically, to state alchemists, and not the one he was planning to meet Al at that evening) had been rebuilt, and Edward stopped across the road, looking up at the new structure. He smiled to himself. No doubt it was filled to the brim with Scheizka's handiwork -- Every old book, document, and record, re-written completely from memory.

Slowly, his eyes roamed down the sides, to the steps, and he startled. The girl seated on the bottom steps would not have been so terribly stratling if she had, say, been dressed in Amestris' military uniform jacket and suit skirt. But her clothes did not quite belong, and that shockingly bright hair might have been distinguished enough all on it's own. But the device in her lap sealed it, and Edward found himself rooted in place with surprise.

Is that...