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[haganenomore]

It's been four months. Four months to the day since he first found the Nexus. Although Ed didn't move in until almost a month after that due to a lack of opportunity to do so sooner.

Ed found himself feeling inclined to just lay on the couch and stare at the ceiling while letting his mind wander, going over the events of the past few months. Or

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[haganenomore]

Ed plops his behind on a chair. "It also requires good drawing skills. Because if you draw the array wrong... Well, if you're lucky, it'll just won't work right. If you aren't, you're fucked."

Ed draws an upside-down triangle with a line through it, separating the tip from the rest of the triangle, then a triangle that's basically a flipped version of the first one. "These represent earth and air respectively."

He draws two more triangles, one right side up and the other upside-down. "These are fire and water."

[alternate_faye]

Faye watches with mild interest. "I see. Pretty cool."

[haganenomore]

"Anyway, there's more symbols, but they aren't needed for what I'm going to be drawing so I'm skipping those."

Next, Ed carefully draws two circles within each other and what appears to be two squares at right angles to each other, contained by the outer circle. "So. What do you see?"

((Yay. Wasn't sure you'd find this thread since you logged out of AIM before I finished the comment I was working on. Ed just drew this thing, by the way.))

[alternate_faye]

((Had to sleep right away, there. I know what you mean, I've seen it.))

She peers at it. "An alchemical array, right?"

[haganenomore]

"Mm-hmm. Not quite the answer I was looking for though. Meant what shapes and symbols. Sorry, should have specified."

[alternate_faye]

"Oh. There's four triangles representing the elements inside two circles. The triangles sort of form a square, right?"

[haganenomore]

"Yup. This is a basic alchemical array, by the way. One that's good for beginners." Ed absently brushes his bangs back out of the way.

"Don't think the author of the book I got it from had little kids in mind when he wrote it in mind though," he admitted sheepishly.

"Anyway. Assuming we had some sort of appropriate material to use, like sand or something, it'd go in the middle. Then, while touching the edge, you'd will it to become what you want it to be. Provided that what you want is made of the same basic substance or substances and involves the same amount. Won't get a sword out of what should only be enough for a knife, for instance."

"I skipped over some stuff, by the way. Just giving you a bit of an idea as to how this part of it works. So, uh, don't try doing this on your own, okay? Besides, for all I know, it may not even work for you since you aren't from home."

[alternate_faye]

"I see. I guess I might be out of luck, huh? I can use a bit of magic, but that'd use a different sort of energy, I think."

[haganenomore]

"Yeah. And probably."

[alternate_faye]

"Prabably be better off not trying. Might blow up in my face."

[haganenomore]

Ed shrugs. "Might or might not. Might wanna try asking Sarah. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if the alt of me that's her boyfriend tried teaching her."

[alternate_faye]

"Okay, I'll ask her when I see her."

[haganenomore]

"Want this or should I just pitch it?" Ed offers the paper he had been drawing on.

[alternate_faye]

"Nope, not really. I'll check with Sarah, I guess.""

[haganenomore]

"Okay." Ed crumples up the paper he had been drawing on and tosses it at the trashcan.

[alternate_faye]

"Has Sarah tried it yet?" She asks.