Week 15, Day 1 [ audio ]

[equivalentfaith]

[There is only silence at the beginning of the feed, which lasts for several long moments until it is punctuated by a sharp sound. At first it is easily mistakable as a sudden burst of static, but upon further inspection more closely resembles the sound of metal slamming against something light, and flat. Then that sound repeats. Again, and again,

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[ voice ]

[snapandspark]

[Winry's gone.

Roy doesn't know anything about the Rockbell girl, aside from the fact that Ed is upset she's gone.]

Mizusato? That island?

[ voice ]

[equivalentfaith]

Yeah, that's the one.

[...]

Kind of lost contact in that shitfest. You and the Lieutenant doing all right?

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[snapandspark]

Were you worried? [Oh hear that teasing smirk, Ed.]

[ voice ]

[snapandspark]

[But in all seriousness...] We're fine. How did you make out?

[video]

[mightstealyrcar]

I tried it already. You can't destroy that thing.

[Matt's smoking his pipe, and looks vaguely rumpled in a tired sort of way. He knew Winry, a little, and liked her, and knows enough to guess that her disappearance is probably the root of this sudden destructiveness on Ed's part.]

[video] gonna say he hasn't seen that post yet but he's free to bring it up :D

[equivalentfaith]

Yeah, I know. Wish the fucker would stay broken for awhile longer, though.

Good to see you're still in one piece, though.

[Tired, and worse for the wear, but who isn't, right now?]

[mightstealyrcar]

Yeah, more or less, I am.

Guess you made it through all right, huh? Nothing horrible?

[equivalentfaith]

Guess that depends on your definition of "horrible", but I'm neither dead nor one of those zombie things, so I'd say I did pretty well for myself.

[Voice]

[purgingthree]

[...sigh. Shame, that, Winry was a nice young woman. He enjoyed spending time with her.

Drawling;]

I haven't particularly thought much of that.

[Since the idea had been that he was just going to use you when the right time arrives.]

How about saying you simply owe me a favour?

[Voice]

[equivalentfaith]

Not gonna happen.

[Ed might have signed up to be a military dog, but he won't just sit back and let himself be someone else's pawn if he has anything to say about it.]

I want to hear what you expect from me right here and now.

[Voice]

[purgingthree]

[Uuuurgh how troublesome, brat. He really doesn't care for anything else, to be completely honest. Money, maybe, but that would be unnecessarily making an enemy for himself when he can easily fix that some other way. Not worth it. Rather making an enemy out of someone who can hate him for using them usefully in this place where there aren't as many people as in his own world.

Simple.]

That is what I expect. Either that, or nothing.

[He honestly doesn't care for anything else and if Ed really believes in this "equal exchange" he'll just have to accept that. All up to him.]

[Voice]

[equivalentfaith]

[Glare.]

Let's get one thing perfectly straight here, then. You try to use this favor shit to blackmail me at any point, I got the right to tell you to fuck off. Got it?

[reaction]

[gonnabe1st]

[Should he ask? It's not his place, is it? Not here. They don't know each other anymore, as painfully awkward as the thought it, making the bitterness curl around his insides that's been ever-present since he arrived in Kannagara. His voice and his words won't make a difference to this one, and it's better for everyone involved to just stay away.

Another day, perhaps.]

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[whitenighting]

[ Allen only went a little deaf at that initial crack of dying quasi-electronics. And, jerking his wireless earring off, he has to sort of... twitch in some confusion and annoyance, quite cleanly thrown from the somber mood he had been in... until he finally hears Ed.

... Ah.

And like that, he carefully puts the earring back on and listens.

Ed- He'd spoken with him before, about his brother who had apparently been here only briefly...

Gone? Winry? Had he lost someone else...?

...Cross?! ]

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[whitenighting]

Ed... hello. It's Allen.

[ It has been a while, after all, and he's a little tentative, almost overly polite in tone and wordchoice because... well, it had been tense last they spoke. And really, especially given that, he's reluctant to pry. It's obviously raw. You kind of just threw the Hitomi against... a wall? repeatedly. ]

Building repair sounds like a good idea; I was thinking of doing the same. If they need more hands in Mizusato I'd be happy to as well.

It'd be nice to get things back to normal as soon as possible.

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[whitenighting]

[ A pause. And... yeah. ]

And, ah I don't mean to pry, but... a man called... Cross... [ Disbelief. It's in his voice ]  ...you're indebted to him...?

[ Oh god master, were you doing it again. ]

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[equivalentfaith]

[He's calmed down considerably by the time Allen comments, but when Ed replies, his voice is still just a little shaky.]

...Hey, Allen.

Yeah. Fixing things has kinda been a gimmick of mine back home, if I needed something quick and didn't have cash on hand...Might get me a place to stay there, for awhile.

[But Ed's mental state is just a bit unstable at the moment, and the word "normal" is enough to set him off again, though not as violently as before. There's that painfully abnormal laugh again, the one that sounds like something midway between a laugh and a sob.]

Normal. Hah. Hahah... How can it go back to being normal when it never was to begin with? There's nothing normal about this shithole. The damn gods here pretty much wrote the book on how to take everything that makes sense and toss it out the fucking window.