'Sorry, no,' said the girl. Ed rubbed his eyes and stared up at her. 'My name is Delilah.' Ed sat up. Delilah was a short girl with long curly red hair and green eyes. 'And you are?'
'Oh, sorry, I'm Edward Elric.'
'Well, welcome to Bellwicket manor Edward.' said Delilah and Ed looked around the large room, which was filled, with what looked like potion bottles. There had to be a thousand of them.
'Sorry, I would have brought you to a bed but you're a bit too heavy and my potions room is on the ground floor,' said Delilah
'No problem,' said Ed standing up. 'You certainly have a lot of potions.'
'It's kind of my life,' said Delilah. 'Not much else to do in this big house. So anyway, what brings you to my manor?'
'Oh, I was er,'
'You weren't here to steal were you?' Delilah asked and Ed turned around to face her. 'Oh no of course not,' said Ed 'I was actually hoping if I could take a look at your library?.' He knew how stupid he sound saying it but the words still came out. She stared at him aghast.
' You came here just to see my library?' she asked in disbelief 'not a very clever thief are you?'
'I told you I'm not a thief,' said Ed angrily
'So you really expect me to believe that you came here just to see my library?' and Ed nodded 'okay lets have a deal, either you leave now or you leave with Scotland Yard, your choice.' And she headed towards the door.
'Please, wait, I just wanted to see your books on alchemy,' he said quickly and Delilah turned around, her eyes wide open.
'Who told you I had books on alchemy?' she asked thunderstruck.
'Someone just tipped me off,' said Ed.
'And what's your interest in alchemy huh?' Delilah asked her hands on her hips.
'I've always been into alchemy but my books are very recent. I'm looking for more older books.' He lied, saying the first thing that came to his mind. He couldn't very well tell her truth.
She stared at him quizzically. 'You're accent is funny. Where are you from?'
'America.' He said quickly. He father told him to tell people that he is from America whenever he was asked.
'Oh,' she nodded. 'I'll have to ask my brother first but I think it will be okay to let you read a few books. But you won't be able to take them out of the house mind you.'
'of course,'
'Bastien?' she called and within minutes a large man walked into the lab. He was tall with caramel skin, big broad shoulders, small but very stern looking eyes and a hint of a mustache. There was something familiar about him but he was sure he had never seen the man before, at least not in this world.
'What is it?' he asked 'and who is that?'
'This is Edward Elric, Bas.'
Bastien did a double take at Ed upon hearing his name.
'What's wrong Bas?' His sister asked
'Nothing, it's just. Your last name. I'm sure I've heard it before. Are you English?' he asked
'No he's American.' Said Delilah. She went on to explain how he got in the house but Bastien just started at Ed suspiciously. Ed was on edge. Could it be possible that this man knew who he was?