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Al enters the bar and makes his way to the bar to see if there are any messages from Ed. There aren't, and he gets The Notice instead.

Al exits the bar again.

He returns a second later with some odd-looking currency, and puts it on the bartop. His tab disappears. Hooray for gainfully employed brothers.

That settled, he goes over to his table and starts reading something huge and scientific.

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"Um.

Whut?"

"you were a person... but you're changed."

Her face creases as she puzzles. "are you an angel?"

"I - no, I'm just an alchemist. My name is Alphonse Elric. I - I'm not that different, honest."

"...it wasn't God?" she asks, cautious, suspicious, trying to ascertain if he's safely aberrant.

Alchemy...

Sigh.

"No."

it isn't happening yet

She sags with relief.

Then looks him over with caution. "...how can you do alchemy without God?" she asks. From the tone, she might be asking "How can you cook without heat?"

"Um. Like this?"

Al quickly transmutes a straw into a small plastic bird, and holds it out to the girl, trying to be friendly.

"If you know about alchemy, are you from Amesteris?"

She blinks, then, as he holds the bird out, tentatively reaches forward, her movements slow and nervous, almost as if she's afraid her hand will fly away if it's too far from her body. One finger traces the bird's wing.

"you do it too..." She looks him over in awe.

"i don't know that place," she answers, "i'm from Silent Hill."

Innocently, "Is it a nice place?"

"it used to be," she says, nodding sadly, "before God was born."

She thinks this over a little. "there was a lake and an amusement park."

"Um.

I'm sorry?"

Not as though God's been particularly nice to the Elrics, anyway.

She bows her head. "i couldn't stop it. the Seal... i tried, but..."

She looks up. With a rustle, a sheet of paper drops onto the table from thin air. A strange seal- a triangle within two circles, and glyphs all around- is marked on it in a red liquid.

"This seal?"

Al reaches out to pick it up. It looks like an array.

"it's to stop G-" She drops to her knees, curling in pain.

Al jumps up, leaving the seal unstudied. "Are you all right? Are you hurt? Do you need a doctor?"

"doctor..." She shudders. "it's God... she'll..."

With a cry, she drops again. And then fades away. The "array" remains.

O_O! goes Al, and picks up the array.

He has to find Edward!

[OOP: Thanks for the RP! ^_^ If Al wants to do further investigation, feel free to ping me at SeraFurikku or email furikku at gmail with questions.

PS: Al is so great!]

[OOP: I must be off, as work is done. Slowtime OK?]

'Course. =D

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