~The Lovely Bones~

"How long have you been here?" she asked me.

"Three days."

"I've been here about a week," she said taking the swing beside me. She kicked her legs and the metal that attached the chains to the pole suspending them in the air creaked as she began to soar, higher and higher. I stayed perfectly still, my eyes turned to the ground.

"What's your name?" she asked.

I did not reprimand her for asking my name before giving hers because, well she was so young and it's not like it mattered anyway. Not anymore. "I'm Winry."

"I'm Nina," she said letting go of the chains and soaring off her swing only to land gracefully on the ground. She spun around like a ballerina to face me, "Do you like it here?"

"No."

"Me either."

So it began.

On the fifth day I met Edward's and Alphonse's mother. I remembered her from when I was a child. I was so happy to see a familiar face that I almost knocked her over when I ran up and hugged her. She taught us many things about this place, me and Nina that is. She explained to us that we could have whatever we wanted here. All we had to do was desire it. I told her all I wanted was to live again. She smiled sadly at me and patted me on the head, just like she used to when I was a child and said, "Ah, Winry. That is the one thing you cannot have."

It was Al who took the call on the ninth. It was the beginning of the end. It was Ed's commanding officer Colonel Roy Mustang who was keeping them updated on the investigation.

"Full Metal?" he asked as soon as he answered.

"No this is Al. Ed's... busy." In reality, Edward was waisting away the night doing his own investigation as usual. He had become obsessed with finding Winry.

Not waisting any time Roy continued, "We've found a body part.

My heart broke as Al's eyes dimmed like they did when something struck his heart so deep that it shook his soul. He stood completely still. "What is it?" he finally inquired.

"An elbow."

If he had a body he would have swallowed hard, "So you can't be certain she's dead right? A lot of woman have gone missing in Central the last few weeks," he added on like a spell just like children crossed their hearts and hoped to die or sang to themselves to keep the monsters at bay.

"Nothing is ever certain."

On the fifteenth Colonel Mustang, accompanied by First Lieutenant Hawkeye, travelled to Risembool to speak to my Grandmother directly. When he handed her the evidence bag that held the hat I had worn that day she wanted to cry out.

"Considering the amount of woman who have turned up dead in Central the last month, I'm afraid we're going to have to begin working with this case under the assumption that you granddaughter has been killed.

Tears began to descend down her cheeks, "No... you don't understand. My son is dead... she was my only grandchild. She's all I have left in this world."

"I'm very sorry."

Grandma Pinako packed a bag and left that night. She wouldn't return for a long time.

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