20. Bridge

Ed assured Roy that the log was perfectly sturdy; that he'd used it a thousand times as a kid and other kids years before him too. That was exactly the reason, Roy said, that it likely wasn't sturdy because wood doesn't age well. Ed argued that the river was small here so it wouldn't matter even if he did fall in. Roy didn't want to get wet.

Ed teased him for not wanting to become Alchemically useless...and then refused to be helped up when the log snapped beneath him and dropped him into the knee-high water beneath. It probably didn't help that Roy was laughing either.