Chapter 11
Edward's POV
I slept for a whole day. I felt terrible! It felt like my whole body had this painful tingling sensation that coursed through it.
At dinner, Winry walked in with a plate of food.
My stomach was in knots, but I was starving. Winry had me fasting since last night to prepare me for the connection. She had explained that it was to prevent me from vomiting.
"How are you Edward?" She asked and set the plate down next to me.
It was a pot roast with potatoes, carrots, and green beans; all cut to bite size pieces for me.
My mouth started to salivate.
"You can eat under a few conditions," Winry stated. "First I need to test your automail."
I looked at my new arm and leg. I hadn't moved them since the connection
"Can you do that?"
"Yeah." I responded. "What do I do?"
"First, raise your right arm over your head. If it hurts, stop or do it slower."
I slowly willed the arm to rise over my head. It worked!
Winry smiled at my excited expression. "Bend your arm next."
I did.
"Wiggle your fingers."
"Okay." I answered smiling widely. I moved and wiggled each finger.
"Alright, we'll move onto the leg." She asked me to bend my leg and wiggle my toes.
I was so excited and happy as I moved my two new limbs.
"Next challenge," Winry stated. She placed the plate of food in my lap and handed me a fork. "The challenge is that you can only use your automail hand to eat."
"What?"
"Yeah. It will be a nice challenge. Getting you use to using the hand. Oh, and you can only use the other hand to hold the plate; but that's it."
"I can do this." I said smugly accepting the challenge before me. I switched the fork to my other hand and started to eat. I stabbed a potato and tried to eat it, but my distancing was off and I missed my mouth. It took me about five minutes to just get a stupid, bite size piece of potato in my mouth.
Winry was watching me the whole time as she ate, almost laughing at my failures.
When I finally got it in my mouth, I furiously chewed the potato and swallowed it. Winry thought she was funny and decided to clap at my success. I turned back to my dinner and tried for a piece of pot roast.
Everything was different.
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After dinner, Winry had me walk to my bedroom to fetch my clothes for a shower. I took a shower, under the supervision of Al's watchful eyes. I toweled off and attempted to change into some sleeping clothes. I realized that the hardest thing to do was changing. I was having great difficulty directing my limbs to go into the arm holes and pants legs.
Al wanted to help me, but he feared Winry. She had told him that I needed to learn how to do things on my own and to not help me, or else.
After successfully changing clothes, I walked to my room and crawled in bed. I was ridiculously tired.
"Edward?" Winry called.
"Yes?" I sighed, just wanting to sleep.
"Get ready for tomorrow."
"Why?"
"You'll see." She grinned and closed the door.
I don't know when I fell to sleep, but I was thinking it was right after she closed the door.