He left the manor and found a taxi back to his flat. He say on is bed for hours reading. With every page he became more and more excited. He felt like a kid again, learning alchemy for the first time. He had to forget everything he had previously learned about alchemy in order to understand this kind of alchemy.
Ed spent the whole of the next day reading over Delilah's note and she was a very accomplished scientist and alchemist. The beginning of her notes stalks about her very first experiments. She did the kind of alchemy he and Al used to do as kids. But as he read on she started to perform more advanced alchemy. Her latest project was trying to simplify it. In order to perform alchemy, she needed three different potions. She wanted a way to transmute things more quickly and efficiently. She has already started combing two of the potions and she working on an experiment to make them into a mass rather a liquid which is heavier. Her goal or Hypothesis as she put it, was to able to perform alchemy anywhere. Not just in lab but on a train, in the streets, in the toilets even. The kind of alchemy he's use to but without the use of transmutation circles. Ed was flipping through pages when a sheets of paper fell out of the book. It was Delilah's hand writing but it looked like a diary entry.

We've been working on this experiment since we arrived here. Bas and I are very close to reaching out ultimate goal of getting back home to where we belong. We've been here so long that I can't even remember what it looks like. I only scarcely remember how to get into town from our house. I've forgotten which train to take to visit Uncle B. at his headquarters. I've even forgotten the faces of our neighbours. Their names elude me and I am afraid that the longer we stay here, the more we forget about home. Will we ever get back? How I miss home and all our country living. How I miss going into town and hearing the clang of auto…

The rest of the page was ripped off. The sentence had not been finished. Ed stared at the piece of paper, wild things going through his mind. Where was this home she referred to and how does it connect with her experiments? Could she be talking about another world, his world? Just then there was a knock the door.
"Come in," he said Hoenhiem walked in to find Ed lying on his bed which was covered in books.

"Well this is an interesting sight," he said "You wouldn't believe what I've found," said Ed and he told him everything he heard and saw. Hoenhiem looked impressed.

"I should very much like to meet this girl," he said "There was one thing that has been on my mind since I saw it." Said Ed suddenly

"What"

"Well while we were in her library, I came across a very old book and on the spine of the book was a symbol I can't seem to get out of my head. It looked like a crest with a lion and few other symbols I couldn't make out."

"The book looked very old you say?" Hoenhiem asked and Ed nodded. "What colour was it"

"The book?" Ed asked and Hoenhiem nodded. "It looked almost silver but I'm sure it was just dust." "No the book is indeed silver and I'm surprised you didn't realize what that crest was." said Hoenhiem and Ed looked confused.

"She told me that it was her family crest," said Ed "Not quite," said Hoenhiem "That crest, was the symbol of the State Military before they started letting in alchemist"

Ed started dumbfounded at his father. "You've got to be kidding me"

"Oh no there's no mistaking that book," said Hoenhiem "There is only one in existence"

"What is that book and what does it have to with Delilah and her family?" Ed asked "Well that book is a guide to advanced alchemy which was given to the Fuhrer of the time by a very well known alchemist named Thurston B. Gran." Said Hoenhiem "How Delilah' s parents ended up with that book is beyond me."