Drabbles written for the LJ community fma100. Fifth challenge: Illness/Pain

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Ghosts

Most of the time, he was numb.

Numb like he should be, empty suits of armor can't feel, right?

Most of the time, it was just emotions.

But sometimes, very faint, the prickling feeling sparked in nonexistent nerves. It crawled up from the bottoms of his feet, and then it was real, and he would have cried, pain stabbing in his hollow chest.

And then it would leave, fading like ghostly memories of what had been, always leaving him with another pain, in the heart that wasn't there, a dull ache.

But Alphonse never told his brother about the ghosts.