"Winter?", Ed groaned, "What are you doing here?"
Apparently in the few hours I was around last night, I'd really made him dislike me. Not that that mattered. I shoved the note at him.

"Orders from my father.", I told him, sitting next to Al across from him.

"Great! Now I get to play babysitter!", he groaned.

"For your information, I'm the same age you were when you got certified. If you didn't need a babysitter then, I sure don't need one. Though from what Mom's told me, you'll be the one I have to babysit.", I tease.

"Do you have a death wish?", Al whispers.

"Hardly.", I whisper back, "Hey, since I'm coming with, will you tell me how you lost your bodies?"

Ed clutched his fist, "THAT'S NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS!"

"Brother,", Al started, "She's going to be with us for a while. We really should tell her."

"Fine!", Ed sighs, "We tried to bring our mother back."

"Human Transmutation!", I gasped. (what a typical girl thing to do, right?)

"We were stupid to even try it but we paid our price.", Ed says.

I understood why they did what they did. I would've done the same thing if it was my mom. That's just the attachment between mother and child. You may not always get along, but you always want them here with you.

"So, Liore?", I say.

"I've got a good feeling about it!", Ed smiles.

"Winter, I'm just saying but you look exhausted.", Al points out.

"Mom dragged me out of bed at 5.", I allowed,"But I'm okay."

"You and brother should get some sleep before we get to Liore.", Al offers.

Ed didn't need telling twice. He rested his head against the window.

"You can't save everyone, Winter!", a voice told me in my dream.

It was dark but I could see it was just me and whoever this voice belonged to.

"I have to try!", I insist.

"How patheic you let bonds of caring overshadow your own dreams and ambitions, and you don't even seem to care that you suffer from it!", the voice said.

"I'm not suffering!", I insist.

"Your own mother won't speak to you! You're a dog of the military, always taking orders from someone else. And it drives you crazy. I'd call that suffering!"

"SHUT UP!", I scream at them.

"Winter, Winter wake up!", Ed is shaking me awake.

"Winter, are you okay?", Al asks honestly concerned.

"Yeah, why?", I say sitting straight up.

"You were shouting in your sleep? Ring a bell?", Ed raises an eyebrow quizzically.

"It was just a nightmare.", I assure him.

"You're awfully strange, Firewall.", Ed says as he goes and sits back in his seat.

"We're almost to Liore, no point in going back to sleep.", Al tells me, still concerned.

Me:Sorry it's not much but I've been/ will be busy for a while so I figured I'd at least give you something.