7. Weapon
It was only a matter of time before he was going to find out; it directly involved him, after all. And not just because he'd thought that he had saved that town. Roy had tried to protect him. Let him think that he had done the town good. Give him some sense of accomplishment when his entire life had been fraught with nothing but failure after failure. Roy knew the feeling all too well and he recognized far too much of himself in the boy to let Ed follow his path.
"Is it true?"
Roy looked up at the boy, his hard eyes filled with apologies, "We ship out in a week's time."