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Chapter 3

The fallen girl's wails grew louder with every second, it seemed. Ed and Elk just smiled at each other for a long period of time. The little girl named Sakura abruptly stopped this. Ed took a minute to look at her, too. Her entire outfit was red, a blood red.

It looked like a pair of pajamas with feet. The long, spacious sleeves were connected to the outfit by a large, red bow around Sakura's neck. Wrapped around her were two, very, very long white ribbons. Ed took a good look at her face next. The one thing he noticed was that her ears looked catlike.

But the thing that startled him the most was that her eyes had no irises. There was absolutely no color in her eyes. They were just big, black voids.

"What?" The girl cocked her head, confused about why Ed was staring at her. Ed shrugged.

"That a birth defect or somethin'?" Ed asked Elk, who was trying to comfort the injured girl.

"Hmm?" Elk murmured.

Ed asked again, "The eyes. They have no color. Is that a birth defect?" Elk nodded.

"Yeah. We don't know how it happened. She's not blind, I know that. I know as much as you do about her eyes." Elk looked at the girl on the ground.

"It's the same with Umeko as well," she said. Umeko had stopped crying now and stood up slowly. Ed stared at her this time. Umeko looked exactly like Sakura. The only thing setting them apart was that Umeko wore a pair of small, golden hoop earrings.

Elk looked around and asked, "Hey, where's Al? I haven't seen him in a long time!" Al almost spoke out but Ed hurriedly turned around and made a quick cutting movement across his throat. Al got the message immediately. Elk hadn't found out yet about the human transmutation, and Ed didn't want to think about how she would react.

"I lost him somewhere on the road, I was just heading back to look for him when I tripped and fell and bumped into Umeko," Ed lied quickly. Elk smiled.

"Well then, tell him I said 'Hello' when you find him!" she said. Ed nodded.

"I most certainly will!" he replied and walked down the road.

Elk shouted after him, "It was nice seeing you!" Ed just sighed a sigh of relief and stuck his hands in his pockets. Sakura tugged on Elk's skirt.

"Elk? Do you think that he knows about the Philosopher's Stone?" she asked. Elk looked at Sakura.

"No, I don't think so. Why would he ever need it? It's not like he's ever attempted human transmutation."