"Kuri! Where did you go?" Saito pelted me with questions. "You didn't go out there alone again, did you?"
"There are new arrivals," I said in the same soft voice, holding out the watch.
Saito traced the markings with his finger. "It could be a fake. Or it could really be another alchemist. Either way someone is baiting us."
"Three guesses who," she said, anger casting an edge to her hushed tone.
"Talking about me?" Sayura asked. She smirked at the two, her bright red hair sparkling in the halflight. "I brought some people to meet you. Ed, Al, this is Kuri Hikari. You can just call her Little Sister."
It was a mocking way of telling me she believed me to be inferior to Saito. She wanted to stir up animosity between the two of us. Her crimson eyes flashed with pure spite. Figured that no one knew exactly what she was.
I looked pointedly at the Elric brothers. "Bringing them here? You know very well what that will do!"
I lunged forward, but Saito caught my arms and held me back.
"And you brought their bodies back too," I spat. "What, so they'll be indebted to you? You make me sick!"
"Do I?" Sayura smiled, releasing the wrists of the two boys. She stepped forward. "If I had a brother, he would love me. Face it. You wish you could control people like this. Hiko would acknowledge you. Your father wouldn't raise a hand against you. But as it is—"
She threw them forward.
I caught them, my face frozen in a glare that was masking the desire to cry.
"As it is…no one will ever love you," Sayura said, smiling. "You fool."
She turned and walked away.
My knees then gave way and I collapsed.