March 20, 1905
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Major Roy Mustang: 19 years old
Captain Maes Hughes: 19 years old
Private Elizabeth Hawkeye: 18 years old
Private Maro Otori: 17 years old
Private Jean Havoc: 18 years old
Private Maria Ross: 17 years old
Corporal Edwin Hawkeye: Died 18 years old, December 1904
Maro Eleni Hawkeye: 9 weeks old
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Riza's Diary,
Time moves slowly here. We're keeping watch over Ishbal from afar but everything seems quiet. Some of us are starting to think that everything has calmed down- that there will be no uprising at all… I wish I believed that. Too many lives have been lost on both sides for this to end peacefully. I fear that there will come a time, not too far in the future, that we can call 'the Ishbal Massacre'. Our forces are superior- there is no way we can lose… especially now that we have Major Mustang's alchemy- my father's alchemy... I haven't seen him yet- we are not in Ishbal itself as he is but far away, waiting- just waiting- for something to happen.
I share a tent with two other Privates- a man and a woman named Jean Havoc and Maria Ross.
I recognised Maria vaguely from a lower year at the academy- she was very good, I think she graduated a year early. Havoc said he remembered me from one of my classes last year- he seemed disappointed when I couldn't say the same for him.
I caught a glimpse of Roy-Major Mustang's friend once. Captain Maes Hughes. He waved at me, grinning like anything and he seemed nice. I wanted to talk to him but he was called away. It's a pity… I would have liked to know how Major Mustang was doing, not that Hughes looked anything like he had just lost a dear friend. His bright face made me smile- I'm glad I saw him.
Adieu,
Riza.