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A.N.: Al's P.O.V.

August 6th 1924 (still)

Cairo, Egypt.

Hotel 1:00 a.m.

About twenty minutes later, I heard the door open once again. What timing, I found a route that would work. With that one, we could get there with time to spare. I booked the boat and everything… I was quite proud of myself thank you very much! Though when Ed came back in, he looked so torn and exhausted, not to mention soaked, I couldn't bring myself to tell him the good news.

"ugh, I'm such a monster…" He muttered as he grabbed a sweater and PJ bottoms and headed for the bathroom. He came out dryer but no less grumpy.

"Now what do I do."

"Marry Winry!"

He looked at me like I asked him to go swimming in piranha-infested waters dressed as a meatloaf.

"I already gave the ring to Adelaide."

"temporary insanity happens to the best of us."

"I am NOT insane!"

"Not now, but you were then. How else do you explain your actions that night?"

Ed opened his mouth trying to say something in rebuttal but still said nothing. Speechless; huh, apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I'm so glad I take after mom.

"Well, on to another subject, I found a better route than before. We'll have time to spare on this one.

August 7th 1924

S.S. Erigone

7:00 am.

Noa was once again the most energetic of the four of us. I'm so tired I can barely open my eyes. How much sleep did I get? Four hours? Three? Three sound about right. That went for Ed and Winry too. Strange thing was they both seemed to function just fine. As for myself, I feel like I could die of fatigue right here.

We set sail an hour ago. We were to go to the area which was right smack in the middle of the coordinates: 26 degrees, latitude 70 degrees longitude; 37 degrees latitude, 53 degrees longitude; and 45 degrees latitude, 1 degree longitude.

I had read some of the lore about that specific location before, and couldn't help but wonder if brother really had lost his mind. I only agreed to this, because I went over the notes as well, (three times at least) and everything was correct.

I'm too tired to be of much help to anyone. I plan to stake out my bed in the cabin. (There's only one on the ship this time.) Top bunk is so mine.

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Noon:

I was woken up by the sound of the door opening.

"Oh there you are Al, sorry to interrupt you sleep. But you needed up on deck. Edward wanted to talk to you."

It was Noa.

"Hrmmm… if it has to do with Adelaide or that stupid ring, I'm still sleeping"

"Ha-ha, no it's not I don't think so anyway."

I said I would be up in a minute and so she left. I grabbed my shirt and climbed down from the top bunk to go meet brother upstairs.

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Once on deck, it wasn't long before I found Ed.

"Al! Hey, can you take over the wheel for me for a bit?"

"Sure."

I climbed the stairs up to where the helm was. It just occurred to me. Neither of us had ever sailed before. So how was it that Ed knew? Then as if he read my thoughts:

"Noa taught me how to sail this thing, you can ask her if you're having problems with it, but basically, all you need to do at this point is to hold the wheel steady for the next hour. I'm going to take a break for a bit."

"You mean you've been doing this since we've started?!" I asked in disbelief.

"Yep!"

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Daughter of Iccarus. Btw, can anyone guess where their headed?