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Lonely Road
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I had left the hospital's front desk a message to deliver to Winry when she came to visit me next. It explained that I had taken a recovery vacation in the south. Winry probably wouldn't believe a word of it, but at least she wouldn't worry that I'd gone off to my doom.
Setting out through the lush hills of Resembool was something that I would have normally enjoyed. But with Al missing and a wound in my chest, the trek was quite the opposite of enjoyable. I was in agony most of the time, having to stop constantly and breath hard, my chest burning with an ardent pain.
It would be best to stay off the roads, in case Winry was looking for me. She would stay along the paths, thinking that in my condition, I wouldn't be able to go cross-country. Which was precisely why I was.
After about twenty minutes, my bandage was completely soaked with blood and it was beginning to stink. I had no spare. I hadn't any food, water, bandages. I could try to use alchemy to get me those things.
Clapping my hands, I placed them on the dirty wrapping and renewed it. I sighed out of relief that I remembered alchemy. It was the first time I had done t since my return. I had enough money in my bank account that I didn't need a job. So I had no use for alchemy.
I continued on in the blazing heat. A cicada hummed ahead and I knew I was nearing the woods, the place Al had taken off to. I sat down to rest, feeling light-headed from all of the blood-loss. I transmuted some of the grass into bread and scarfed it down, but remained parched. The river was nearby, so my thirst would soon be quenched.
I lay back in the grass, gazing at the perfect blue sky. It was so beautiful. Everything was so beautiful. How could my labor not be so beautiful? Using my hands as a pillow, I turned onto my side and closed my eyes for a nap. Just a quick one...
Waking, I noticed that the sun had already set, and millions of stars dotted the sky. My ears were bombarded with the loud sound of thousands of cricket chirps. The warm summer air had cooled quite a bit and I felt good enough to walk again. I got up and brushed all of the grass from my pants and kept walking towards the forest.
I reached the borderlines of the woods just as the sky became black. The trees blocked all of the twinkling stars and dampened my spirit. I felt alone. Deciding I could go no further without light, I lay down to sleep. I kept hearing some branch snap or an owl hoot and it kept me from sleeping. The forest was eerie at night, a very lonely place.
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