Theme #21 – Eye Color
Fate?
Roy sat at his desk with his finished paperwork before him, watching his subordinates scribble away at their own work. When Hawkeye felt his gaze and glanced up at him, he bemusedly noticed for the first time that her eyes were a deep red color.
Almost like blood.
He was suddenly struck by the strange thought that Hawkeye's eyes might once have been a different color, but that because of the deaths she had caused and had seen they had changed. Embarrassed, he shook his head and dismissed the nonsensical idea. Why was he getting all philosophical? Why was he thinking about her eyes, anyway?
Because I have nothing better to do, he told himself.
No, he thought, not blood, something else. He had noticed something else; in the sunlight, her eyes had flickered orange and yellow. What else was red, orange, and yellow?
There was always fire.
He laughed to himself. Why was she named Hawkeye? Why not Riza Fire-eye?
Riza of the Fiery Eyes. That sounded good.
Another thought occurred to him, almost causing him to laugh out loud. Fire Eyes and the Flame Alchemist. And Breda's blazing, fire-red hair… He wondered vaguely if it was preordained that he and his subordinates be trapped with one another.
Interesting, he mused. Perhaps Fate exists, after all.