Ling set Roy down on the sofa as Bei slowly lowered Riza to the other side of the sofa.
"So, to sum it up, you wandered the desert until you passed out from starvation?"
"And King Bradley found me. He took me in because he wanted someone to help him."
"When did you know you were a homunculus?"
She stopped and touched her palm. A sad face came to her. She looked away. "When I was in the desert. I died. I stayed in Xerxes in hopes someone would find me. My patience was my downfall." She rubbed the make up on her palm to reveal the dragon's head. "I died sitting there. It came to me and I was given a second chance with a new life and a new place where people weren't mean to me."
Ling was reaching out to touch the shoulder-length hair when he realized she'd cut off so much of the hair he'd admired on her so long ago. "You cut your hair."
"Yeah, again." She smiled at Ling. "It was longer when I encountered you before."
Ling watched her and he suddenly pulled the Yang pendant out of his pocket and held it out to her.
Bei's smile was sad. "I think I need to return my half. I'm sure someone loves you more now." She touched his hand, her fingers trembling as she lowered his hand. "I'm sure you're really a good man. I do miss you."
Ling slowly stepped closer. "Who are you?"
Bei looked away at Roy. She reached out and brushed hair away from Roy's face. "I'm still Bei, but I'm also Patience, the partial Homunculous." She stepped real close to Ling. "I'm just as strong as Greed, if not more. I can see what gives you strength and I can see what drives you to do things. That's what my eyes see." She gently brushed hair away from his face and she smiled at him.
Ling realized, a second too late, that it wasn't Bei, it was the Homunculus Patience.
Her lips touched his and he felt the electrifying energy that was empowering him to feel brighter.
Greed shoved her back. "What the-?"
She covered his mouth and held a finger to her lips. "Hush." She went to Roy and pulled the pendant out of his pocket. She dangled it before Greed. "There's something she has to do before she dies. Her patience can only hold for so long. She's quite the person to fear." She touched Greed's face with a gentle hand and a kind smile. "Until I find her a home, she's going to forever be lost. I can't change that. My name is Patience, Greed."
He blinked.
"I desire the strength and will-power. I wait for everything. I rush for nothing." She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before she turned away. "You should run. He's coming back."