Ed: "...Not sure what that is."
-removes his glove, revealing the hand of this
◊- "This, though, is automail. Operable prosthetic."
-opens and closes his hand-
Al: -to FF- "Oh, then I'd suggest any kind of literature class. There are some fascinating things you can learn from poems from back in the day."
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Be kind.Ed: -to Chaud- "...I think automail's got a nicer ring to it."
-knocks on his left leg- "So does my automail."
Al: -to FF- "Well, I don't know about anywhere else, but old poems and stories from my homeplace reveal the history of alchemy, which Brother and I practice."
Ed: -chuckles- "I remember gettin' one of those. Some idiot claiming to be an Ishbalan prince."
"...Which is impossible right off the bat."
Al: -to FF- "In some places, yes. Where we come from, though, alchemy is...um..."
-thinks-
"...it is a little like magic, but with rules attached to it. Do you know what the Law of Equivalent Exchange is?"
Be kind.Ed: -to Chaud- "And Ishbal was on the losing end of a big war a few years back."
"...pretty sure they weren't a monarchy, anyways."
Al: -to FF- "Um, a little bit, yes."
"You see, in alchemy, you cannot create something without giving up something else. For instance, if I had the right amount of scrap metal, I could transform it into, say, a wheelbarrow. You have to give in order to take."
Be kind.Al: -to FF- "There are only so many materials in the world...you can't just create them out of thin air. The world moves in a cycle, you see — if you were to just...make something out of nothing, the cycle would be disrupted."
Ed: -to Chaud- "So...Electopia."
"I always get nervous when a place claims to be a utopia."
Be kind.

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