A/N: School's started as of today. -_- I'll be aiming to update every 3-7 days from now on, so expect earlier updates! Review and enjoy!
We're here, he thinks numbly as he follows the scarred man throughout the darkened corridors. He is vaguely aware of the fact that this man has tried to kill him multiple times, but his mind isn't focused on that.
Whatever happens today will change the course of the rest of their lives. Either they'll regain Al's body (and Ed's limbs, too, but he doesn't think of that) or they…won't, and then the soul bond will fail any day and when that happens-
No. He can't think like that. He won't think like that, not if he wants to keep calm. For a distraction, he stuffs his hands in his pockets, fingers brushing something metal. His eyebrows furrow as he feels the shape, finally working out what it is. Once he does, his fingers close tightly around the small pieces of metal, ones he now recognizes to be Winry's earrings.
He's glad that he has them now, as a small thing to hold onto in the sea of darkness that he's now going to face.
They are, after all, a reminder of the girl waiting for him, of the friend who supports him, of a promise he intends to keep.
They are a comfort.
They are another reason he constantly reminds himself to live.
In a way, he supposes as he stares at the ground, they're like a good luck charm. Not in the sense that they bring him luck, no, he's never believed in that. But those earrings give him more reason to believe in himself.
He has more to live for, now. He no longer has just a reason to keep searching.
He has a reason to stay.
Knowing this, he sets off quicker, blood pounding in his ears and every nerve in his body alert.
He isn't about to break two promises.
