During the month of abscnce, both Winry and Kimblee did a lot of thinking. Winry was happy to get back to normal. The normality, of course being
her, Ed, and Al. During the month she couldn't help but notice her and Ed grow a lot closer. At nights they seemed to stay up a lot longer talking and
they seemed to laugh a lot more. Ed wasn't even grumpy when he found almost no leads on the stone. The two leads he did find were very
surprising. The first they got from an old soldier who claimed a woman named Pinako Rockbell gave him a stone.
"She's my grandmother," Winry said in awe.
"You look just like her," the old man said.
"Her and I used to be sweethearts many years ago."
By this time they accepted the offer of staying at this house.
"What happened?" Al asked curiously.
"She wanted to be an independent young women and I wanted a family so we went our separate ways."
"Oh," Winry said in awe. Just then a man around the same age as Mustang came in from the kitchen.
"During the Ishbalan war I got the stone from Mustang," he said in a gruff voice.
The group stayed up talking for a bit and in the morning they were given a giant picnic basket by the man's wife and were told to tell Pinako that 'Abe
said hi.' Even though the children never saw them again they always remembered the wonderful little house.
"Now where are we off too?" Al asked.
"Mustang lied to us," Ed stated angrily as they boarded the train.