Ed,
I very much appreciated your visit yesterday. I'm so used to coming to see you in the hospital, it was quite strange for the tables to be turned! But I'll admit your timing was impeccable.
As glad as I am (as I've written before) that Havoc is alive and mostly well, I was having a pretty bad day in terms of guilt. It was weighing on me quite heavily. Given my current situation as well as his own, I just feel so…helpless. Yes, I saved him and myself, but he's hurt, and I can't help. And since I'm stuck in this place, I also can't do anything useful for the time being. It's not a feeling I'm used to.
Your coming through made the day more bearable. Seeing your fresh, determined face kept me from losing too much hope. I can't expect you to come in and reinvigorate me every day, so I suppose I'll just have to heal up fast so I can be out there, fighting alongside you.
Don't get in too much trouble until I can do just that, okay?
Yours,
Roy Mustang