By now, Shyanna had calmed down

Wiping small tears from her eyes she muttered, "Thanks Al." Al stood up and walked back over the Ed, who had sat back down. Shyanna stared out the window as Mustang sat down. Clutching her bag to her chest, she said quietly, "I don't want to talk about it."

"You need to be more careful," he said watching her. A stray tear slipped down Shyanna's cheek.

"I know."

"So why did you disappear?"

"Roy, you already know why." Shyanna reached into her bag and pulled out her diary. She flipped through it absentmindedly, calmed down a lot more. He eyed her, watching her emotionless face.

"I don't think I have the full story," Shyanna stopped flipping the pages for a second and looked up at him. Her hand drifted over the book to cover up her latest entry.

"What makes you think that?" she asked. Glancing over her shoulder, Shyanna noticed that same serious look on Ed's face as he stared out the window. She couldn't help thinking 'Nosy little kid,'

Ed was deep in thought about Shyanna. She was most definitely hiding something, that much was obvious, but what was it? Until a few seconds ago, he had been watching her and Mustang talking. Mustang looked as if he was trying to comfort her and question her at the same time, but Ed couldn't really tell. Al watched his brother before asking, "Is something wrong brother?"

"I can't help thinking there's some kind of big secret here," Ed looked over at him, then at the back of Shyanna's head.

"She just might be able to take the pain," Al suggested. Ed shook his head.

"She would still be a little tender on it," Ed watched as Shyanna stared out the window for a moment before going back to what she was doing. He saw in her reflection that she was scared of something.

Shyanna was writing the recent event down in her diary.

That nosy Elric is too smart for his own good. He noticed that I haven't been limping on my ankle. And not only that, but he didn't buy the whole "I heal quickly," thing. No, instead he tried to chop my head off. He claimed to be seeing how fast I really do heal. Good thing I have excellent reflexes or I'd have a slit throat right about now. I'm actually thankful that Roy was around. I know I can trust him not to say anything, but he uses it to get me to do everything. Not only that but I can't forgive him for April 7th. But back to Ed. He's a nice kid and a very good alchemist, but he needs to stop nosing around.

I'd like to help him,

I want to help him

But I can't tell him about it.

I can't tell anyone, not Ed, not Roy, not anybody.

"Shyanna?" Roy's voice snapped her out of her thoughts. She quickly snapped the book shut and put it back in her bag.

"What?" she asked. It wasn't a harsh tone more of a 'What did I do?' one.

"You're not gonna tell me are you?"

"There's nothing more to tell."

"Are you sure?"

"Are you ever going to let up on these questions?"

"Not until I get some answers," Mustang was getting impatient, Shyanna could tell.

"Sorry, but I need to get some sleep seeing as I was rudely awakened," she moved the bag onto the floor and lay out on the seat, staring at the ceiling. For a moment, she held up her left arm. At that moment, Ed looked up and saw her hand and he realized for the first time that it was automail. Shyanna looked up at it in a sad hurt way, but also with hatred. Roy watched her eyes as they filled with emotion, then up at her arm.

"So you got it fixed up?" he said casually. Shyanna didn't say anything, not wanting to talk anymore and rolled over drifting into a dreamless sleep.

It was early dawn when her eyes opened again. No one else was awake, and Shyanna preferred it that way. It gave her time to think. She got up and stretched walking over to the other side of the car. She sat down as far as she could from the others and pulled out her playing cards. Solitaire always seemed to help.

While she was playing, another person woke up. Ed yawned, wondering why he had woken up so early. That wasn't like him. He peeked over the seat and saw Shyanna's empty seat. Looking around he spotted her concentrating on her game. 'What is she hiding?' he thought watching her playing, 'There are three ways to find out, but none of them are things I want to do. I refuse to ask Shyanna herself, I'm not positive Mustang knows the big secret. The only thing to do would be to read her diary.'

Ed looked back over the seat at Shyanna's blue bag, sitting on the floor next to her seat. He had his hand out as if to reach for it when he heard footsteps coming his direction.

"What are you doing, Edward?" she stood behind him, cards in hand, looking at him accusingly. He quickly pulled his hand back and looked away from her. Shyanna looked over at her bag and realized she had left her diary out of the box. She walked over to it and wrenched it open grabbing the diary and shoving it in the box. Locking it and carefully putting the key in her pocket she sighed and sat back down. A stray lock of hair fell into her face.

"Damn, I forgot having it short means I can't tie it back," she said tucking the hair behind her ear with her automail hand.

"How'd that happen?" Ed asked walking around the seat to sit down next to her. Shyanna laughed quietly.

"Why should I tell you? You nearly slit my throat," she said looking out the window. A town could be seen getting closer. "Oh, that's our stop."

She reached over and nudged Mustang. "Colonel, we're almost to Lenona."

The moment they stepped off the train, they were hit with the sweet fragrance of flowers. Shyanna inhaled deeply, smiling. "This reminds me of home," she said looking around.

It was obvious that this town's specialty was flowers. There were flower stands everywhere they looked, all with all sorts of different flowers. Shyanna smiled at everyone around her, she even went over to a stand and bought a yellow and pink rose. She cut the stem so it was only about two inches long and had no thorns on it. She slipped it behind her ear, so it pushed her short hair back alittle bit. She fell behind alittle bit after throwing one of the children's balls back to them. Both Mustang and Ed looked at her as if she were crazy.

"What are you doing? We're here on business, not on a leisure trip," the Colonel said to her, watching as she waved at some little kids playing. Shyanna rolled her eyes and ran up to walk next to him.

"Oh please. You must associate yourself with the people so they don't feel threatened by the fact that you're from the state. If they feel more comfortable, then everything runs more smoothly," Shyanna put her hands behind her head and sighed, "You guys really don't understand how to do your own job."

Ed and Al gaped at her, but Mustang just smirked. "And that is why you're one of the best," he said to her. Shyanna blushed and looked at Ed over her shoulder and stuck her tongue out at him.

They entered the inn they were staying at, Shyanna still smiling. Mustang got the keys to their rooms and they went up to their rooms. However, when she entered her room, she stopped smiling immediately. Fuming, Shyanna walked out her door and over to the Colonels, which has right next door. She pounded on the door, fists clenched. When he answered the door, she didn't even give him time to ask "what?"

"You're kidding me! I have to stay in a room connected to yours?" Shyanna said, trying hard not to scream. Roy just looked at her.

"We don't want you running off again," he said simply.

"Do you not trust me that much? Come on! This is ridiculous!" Roy just shrugged and Shyanna stormed back into her room. She pulled out her brush and got the rats out of her hair. Someone knocked on the door right as she had put the rose back in her hair. She opened the door a crack and seeing Ed there closed it in his face. He pounded on the door again but she ignored him.

"Keep trying kid but I'm not gonna talk to you," she muttered to herself leaning against the door.

"You really should at least try to talk to him," a voice said in her room. She answered without even thinking.

"Damn kid doesn't know when to quit," All of a sudden she realized what was going on. Shyanna looked over at Mustang, who was standing in the doorway of the door that connected their rooms. "Hey! Have you ever heard of knocking?"

"Lieutenant…" he said warningly.

"You still could've knocked," she said bitterly. Roy just glared at her until she hung her head. "Sorry, sir."

He smirked satisfied and turned to go back in to his room. "Let Fullmetal in."

Shyanna sighed and opened the door into the hall. Ed was still standing there, just staring at the door.

"What do you want?" she asked, regretting every moment of it. He either wanted to apologize or to pry some more.

"Shyanna, I…" he started.

"Mr. Elric, I'm not sure if you and I are exactly on a first name basis here. If you came to say you're sorry, apology not accepted and if you want to know more forget about it," she wasn't happy about him being here at all.

"I should've known you weren't…You can do alchemy," he said staring down at the ground, much as Shyanna had down back in Central.

"And you just now noticed that?" Shyanna glared at him and checked the time. "I'm hungry, so this ends our conversation. Goodbye, Mr. Elric."

She closed the door before he could reply. Shyanna made sure the key to her box was still in her pocket and knocked on Mustangs door. When he opened it, she decided to get one more snide remark in.

"I hope you were paying attention, that was your lesson on knocking. Is it ok if I get something to eat?"

"Only if you take Ed with you."

"What? Why?"

"Do I really have to answer that?"

Shyanna fumed silently. 'This sucks in so many ways," she thought sourly as she knocked on the door. Ed opened it and looked surprised up at her, obviously not expecting Shyanna to willingly come to his door.

"The Colonel says I have to take you with me if I want to go eat," she said, "So come on."

Shyanna, Al, and Ed walked through town to a small café. Ed and Al went over to sit in a booth, expecting Shyanna to follow but she walked over to the counter and sat there. She ordered some water and a stack of pancakes. While she waited for her food, Shyanna started a game of solitaire. A couple of young men entered the café when she got her food. They eyed her for awhile, sitting farther down the counter and one of them finally walked over.

"What's a pretty girl like you doin' in the military?" he asked. Shyanna looked up at him. He had blonde hair and green eyes, he was cute but she wasn't interested.

"I have my own reasons," she said and took a sip of her water. She flipped some cards over and made a few moves on her game.

"Why don't take a break and go for a walk with me?" he asked hopefully. Shyanna looked at him over her sunglasses.

"Sorry, I'm on duty," she said idly. She took a bite of her pancakes and smoothed a wrinkle out of her uniform. He looked alittle disappointed.

"Oh, come on you can take a little break," he urged. Shyanna smirked as she picked up her cards.

"I'll go out with you if you beat me at a hand of poker," she said simply shuffling the cards. He laughed.

"OK, sure." He sat down beside her and she handed him the cards to shuffle. The guy quickly shuffled and dealt the cards. He looked pretty happy with his hand.

"Ha ha, full house!" he exclaimed setting his cards down on the counter. Ed came over to see what was going on and looked over at Shyanna.

"The Colonel won't be happy if you go out while we're on duty," he said to her, looking worried.

"Don't worry Ed," she said laying down her hand, "Royal Flush!" The boy's jaw dropped and he stuttered.

"You cheated!"

"I can't have, you shuffled," Shyanna stood up and put a few dollars on the counter to pay for her meal. She turned to Ed. "They don't call me the Royal Flush alchemist for nothing."

"Ed, I'm gonna go to the square. Tell Roy if he wants to make sure I don't run away that he can see me from his window."