19 – Flat line
When his mother died, Al remembers the silence best and then the wails of him and his brother. After he lost his body, Al would still shudder at remembering the feeling of losing his body, shudder because he could not weep as he lost all form and feeling before his eyes when he was nearly sucked in by the Gate. Once Hughes is dead, Al wishes he could cry like others and promises to himself that when he has his body he will. With a body, he can't help but scream when he finds his brother missing as tears refuse to fall. It's only when his brother returns that he finally feels something release within him and he cries for that he has lost and gained.
