That night, Ed's dreams were filled with odd transmutation circles and girls with dark wavy hair. Needless to say, it was a very fitful sleep for him. When he woke the next morning at the crack of dawn, he found his brother in the living room contemplating something.

Usually Al greeted his older brother enthusiastically in the morning, relieved to have company again, but this morning he remained silent. He didn't know how to tell Ed about what he experienced the day before. He didn't even know if he should tell Ed about it. A look over at his brother muttering grumpily to himself while searching for leftovers in the adjacent kitchen only reinforced his desire to stay quiet.

Ed was already annoyed with the situation and the psychic that put them there, Al didn't want to make it worse by telling him that she had made him feel something yesterday.

He didn't mean that figuratively. Al had literally felt her hands on his hand yesterday. He didn't know how it was possible, but after not having felt anything for roughly 4 years since their attempt at human transmutation, he was shaken at the feelings he had yesterday. The prospect of Amina being able to help them get their bodies back was undeniable after what he had experienced with her already. She gave him hope that there was something they could do to return to normal. Already Al wanted to return to the girl in order to feel something again.

If he had his human body, he would have blushed at the way that sounded. He wasn't trying to be creepy or anything, he just missed the sensation of being human. And this was the first sliver of humanity he had had in years, there was no way he was going to just sit back and let his embarrassment keep him from this.

They both milled around for the better part of the morning, halfheartedly guessing at what Amina had done to result in the previous day's events. They would normally be looking into it eagerly, but this was a scenario where they really didn't have anything to go off of. They just had to be patient, and the brothers tended to handle that particular virtue very poorly.

Once it was a more acceptable time to show up on someone's doorstep demanding answers the brothers headed out towards the shop for the second time.

Ed forced the door open, making the bell react as expected. Today, Amina was waiting for them, already sitting down at the low table.

She turned to them with fresh eyes, not bothering to smile. She knew she was in for an interrogation.

"Boys," she said in way of greeting.

"Hi Amina." Al said enthusiastically, as Ed said nothing and trudged over to her table.

Amina smiled at that, "Hi Alphonse."

"You can just call me Al!"

Ed gave an incredulous look to his brother. What the hell is he so chipper for?

"Only if you call me Mina!" she said not losing her smile.

"O-okay!" Al said hesitantly but happily.

Amina turned towards Ed and gave a small sigh, "No pleasantries from you I guess?"

He rolled his eyes to the side, avoiding eye contact, "Ed," he said shortly as a gruff truce for the moment.

Her smile morphed into a grin and she nodded her head at him, "Ed."

She paused, looking between the two and realizing there was nothing left to say she leaned back and folded her arms casually, "What do you want to know?"

Ed sat up further, "How did you know about us? About our past?"

Both brothers leaned in as she drew in a breath, "I saw it."

"You saw it?" Ed asked, sounding both incredulous and sarcastic.

"Yup," she said popping the 'p', already annoyed with his attitude again, "Saw it. With my eyes. On the backs of my eyelids."

"How?" Ed asked harshly at the same time his brother asked excitedly.

With a sigh and an eye roll towards the ceiling, Mina gave her answer, "I'm psychic. Like actually, none of that cookie cutter guesswork for me."

Ed, back to his frustration from yesterday almost growled out, "But how? People aren't just psychic! It's make believe! Tricks!"

With his frustration came hers, "Well I am okay? It's not tricks or alchemy or drugs, I can sense things from people, I have always been able to! If you want the facts on how go find someone who knows because I sure as hell don't!"

Al, trying to keep the peace raised his armored hands up and shook them, "We believe you okay! We just want to figure out why you have these… these powers. If there's some way we could use them to get our bodies back then we need to know!"

"Alphonse!" Ed snapped, glaring over at his brother. They didn't need some random girl's help to solve their problem.

Al became more aggressive at his brother's outburst, "Brother! She already knows! And if she can help us or point us in the right direction then we need to-"

"This is our problem not anyone else's!"

"I'm not saying it's her problem! I'm saying she could help us fix-"

Al was cut off again, "That's enough Al!"

Amina's voice cut through the beginnings of their argument, "I want to help."

The brothers both looked her way. Seeing that Ed was about to protest again, Mina didn't give him the chance, "I want to help, I just don't know how. I don't know how I got these 'powers' as you call them, but if I can help you I will."

Ed's eyes were narrowed so heavily into a glare that Al was worried he was going to pop a blood vessel.

"Why would you want to help us? You don't even know us."

"I know what you've been through, and that's enough. What you've been through is awful," she said staring directly into his eyes. The steady gaze unnerved the eldest Elrich; he looked away.

"We did it to ourselves. And we don't need the pity of someone like you."

Al began to scold his brother, but Mina beat him to it, "And I don't need the cynical asshole-ry that is you. Besides I want to know why I'm like this just as much as you guys. More. If I can find out with you then I'll help any way I can."

She seemed to be serious, and Ed noted that she held a tone of desperation hidden in her voice.

"Who's to say we can help with that?" Ed asked, still skeptical.

"You're a state alchemist aren't you? You have access to information I could never dream of getting, maybe- maybe something in all that can tell me why I'm like this!"

Both the brother's were reminded of why Ed became a state alchemist in the first place. They couldn't exactly deny the validity of the fact that he did have access to much more in depth and restricted information. Ed just couldn't tell if she had any other motives for helping them and he didn't feel comfortable agreeing to anything with her without knowing that. She currently knew a lot about them and they knew next to nothing about her.

"We'll need to talk about this. Letting you have access to restricted works is technically an abuse of my status. That, coupled with the fact that we don't know you, means we'll need time to decide."

A single dark eyebrow lifted, "What, you want me to leave the room?"

Al thought the incredulous look on his brother's face was hilarious, but tired of not getting a say in things and eager to actually discuss the matter with his brother, Al stepped in, "We'll go and come back. Probably tonight or tomorrow, okay?"

To stop his brother from getting into another heated discussion with either of them, Al grabbed hold of Ed's arm and twisted it subtly into leaving, "We'll be back later! See you soon Mina!"

Mina, surprised with the turn of events, managed a small distracted wave as she watched Ed fume at his brother about manners.

This might be her shot at figuring out how she could do the things she could do. Mina didn't know how she was so lucky as to have these two brothers fall into her lap, but she wasn't about to waste a good resource, and she was willing to help them with everything she had.

Sitting up from her perched spot on the low chair she went to her stuffed bookcase to see what information could potentially help the two brothers in their journey.

A/N: To clarify in regard to a review: Amina is full-blooded Amestrian. She is not from our world. Chapters will vary in length and be posted at minimum biweekly on Saturdays. In the summer if I have more time I will aim for weekly, still on Saturdays. Thanks to BloodPokemon101 for the review! Please review so I can know your thoughts/ideas!

~AndSo