Chapter Three
"Ah, Renea, you're catching on," my sister rasped, her voice hoarse. "Trying to bring your sister and mother back was a big mistake."
"What about Mom? Where's her Homunculus?" I demanded, getting up weakly.
"Oh, she's far away, with Lust," she whispered back. "The Homunculi call me Deceiver, but, as your sister's name was, you can really call me Sayuki."
"Stop it!" I yelled, trying not to get the urge to figure out how to kill her. "I can't call you Sayuki, because you really aren't."
"Now I see why they call you Deceiver," Ed whispered, stepping out from the large crack in the wall. "You deceive people because you know everything, and you know something that Renea doesn't."
"Huh, somebody taller than Renea that's not as smart as her," Sayuki muttered. "You know, I know something you don't, just as you say."
"And I apparently know what you're thinking," I said. "Ed, they forbid the act of human transmutation because of what's happened. But they also forbid it for something else; because of Homunculi and because it's possible."
"What?" Al and Ed asked, unbelievingly. "You've done it?"
"No, of course not," I said, rolling my eyes, "but I know the person who has."
"Who is it?" Ed demanded.
"She can't say, because the person is close," Sayuki explained evilly.
"But who is it exactly?" Al asked instantly. "Like, the name?"
"Our mom," me and Sayuki said together.
"But… your mother's dead!" Ed yelled, mostly to Sayuki. "How are we supposed to know how to successfully do it when she's dead?"
"Remember, Ed?" I said, "Sayuki knows everything. So, she knows how to successfully do a human transmutation."
"People just wrote it in the books that it was forbidden because of the lost lives," Sayuki explained, her unceasing voice really annoying me.
"Can you just tell me what I don't know?!" I demanded, stomping my foot so hard that it clanked loudly.
"Of course," Sayuki said. "The Homunculi find this peculiar, since you don't know, but you have Ishbalan blood in you."
"That's why your eye is red," Ed exclaimed, finally understanding. As if to confirm it, Ed walked back to me to pull away my bangs. "See? I always had the suspicions."
"So, they say I have Ishbalan blood in me," I whispered, pulling back my bangs and tucking them behind my ear, something I haven't done in YEARS, "the serial killer must be Ishbalan. But, that means my father, my mother, and Sayuki were Ishbalan too."
"Do you know who the serial killer is?" Al asked, remembering the man with the x-shaped scar over his eyes.
"Yeah, but not his true name," Sayuki said. "Only what the military call him."
Ed caught on, and said, "He's Scar isn't he?"
"Yes, that's the name the military gave him," Sayuki remembered. "But keep this in mind: he's not your father, since your real father was actually Scar's brother."
"He's the guy that Lust remembered!" Al exclaimed, sitting down on the metal box behind him. "Remember? The true story behind why he's killing all the state alchemists. It's because of Kimblee."
"Kimblee, the Red Lotus Alchemist?" I asked. "He's one of the state alchemists that actually killed my mother and sister…"
"Yeah, and Kimblee tore Scar's face in the shape of the x, and he happened to lose his arm," Sayuki said. "Our real father actually gave his arm to Scar, to save his life, and our father died because of Kimblee."
"Just shut up!" Ed yelled, just what I needed to hear. I just really wanted to kill Sayuki right now.
"Try to kill me, why don't you?" Sayuki said. "But the ruins of the real Sayuki are locked in here." She tapped her head.
"Wow, she doesn't really know everything," I said, getting up and smiling at Ed. He caught on, and soon Al caught on. The ashes of Sayuki and my mom were just outside the window above the basement, only a few feet from the wall at our left.
"I do!" Sayuki yelled. "Remember? I'm the Deceiver! I know everything!" Well, the only way you can kill a Homunculus is a custom way, and because of the ruins of the true person, I thought to myself, so, element of surprise on a person who knows everything is the perfect tactic.
I yelled, "NOW!" and Ed and I clapped, and Al had drawn his transmutation circle small on the floor beside his foot, and the bolts and the rock from Ed and Al practically destroyed Sayuki, or Deceiver, to be exact. The light faded, and where Deceiver was standing were these small, round red stones.
"What are those?" I asked, picking one up. It shone a bright red and Ed and I instantly dropped it.
"They have no specific name," Ed explained, "but when you try to bring back the dead, some monster was in the center of your circle, right?"
"Uh-huh," I replied. "It was gross, whatever it was… there were two since my mother and sister…" I shivered.
"Yeah, and when you left the building," Ed stated, "The Homunculi's creator comes by, fed them these stones to become a Homunculus."
"So, even if a regular human eats those stones, they can become a Homunculus?" I asked, hoping for a no.
"Yeah," Ed replied.
"Huh. But now what are we going to do?" I asked. "That one Lust lady is gonna find out we killed Deceiver and hunt us down!"
"We've kept ourselves hidden for two years, I suppose we can hide for a few more," Al pointed out. "Besides, there are three of us now."
"I finally have a break from them calling me puny!" Ed yelled in celebration, but that soon ended when I slapped him hard on the back of his head, making him collapse.
"Next time," Al said, "I bet you not say that, Brother."
"Good idea…" he moaned, getting up and rubbing the back of his head. "And she used her left hand! It totally hurt since it's made out of automail."
"Now you know what Brother feels like," Al said to me, but eyeing Ed in case he would call me short again. "He's been called short ever since they noticed he became a state alchemist when he was twelve."
"Twelve?" I asked, surprised. "Jeez, what did you do?"
"It's when Nina was still her normal self," Ed said, looking guilty. "I was taking the test while spending the night at Shou Tucker's place. And, I happened to pass while also saving someone's life, so they made me state alchemist."
Shou Tucker? I asked myself. That name sounds familiar… Isn't he the "Sowing-Life Alchemist"? The guy who made the first successful talking Chimera… but all it said was "I want to die" and it didn't eat or drink anything after that and died shortly…
"Shou Tucker!" I exclaimed, remembering something important. "It was four years ago when his wife left him, and that he first made that talking Chimera… and Nina and Alexander…"
"Wait, how do you know them?" Ed asked.
"While I was studying my father recommended traveling on my studies to find out more," I explained. "I happened to meet Mr. Tucker—that retard—and he allowed me to study in his house, since they didn't have any visitors lately. And I met Nina…"
"So, you knew what happened?" Al asked weakly, and I nodded.
"Combining a dog and his own daughter just to pass the assessment," I recalled. "Nina was so adorable!"
"Mr. Tucker was nice while he lasted," Al said, "but when Ed found out he nearly killed Mr. Tucker."
"You should've let him, then!" I snapped, folding my arms. "Stupid retard, that's probably why his wife left him!"
"Man, you're just as angry when Ed found out, Renea," Al complimented, and I took that in.
"Can we just talk about something else?" I asked.
"Yeah sure," Ed said. "Race you to Winry's!"
"I'm gonna win!" I yelled back, and I teleported to Winry's, hid myself upstairs under the bed by the window.
"Ha hah, Ed will never find out!" I whispered, and I heard the door slam open downstairs.
"Crap, gotta keep quiet," I whispered to myself.
"Hey, did Renea come by here?" I heard Al ask, and Ed was panting. Luckily a big suit of armor doesn't get tired.
"Yeah, she just went upstairs, but she looked like she was in a hurry," Granny Pinako said, and I heard her smoke her pipe.
"'Kay, thanks!" Al said, and I heard them stomp upstairs and appear at the door, Ed only trailing behind.
"Looks like she's not here," Ed panted, coughing. "Jeez, if only you had your old body back—"
I clapped my hands, and broke the floor where they were standing. They fell into the couches downstairs, and I repaired the floor instantly after they fell. I escaped through the window, went into the front door and opened it.
"Man, you guys beat me," I said sarcastically, an evil grin on my face.
"Renea, that is so unfair!" Ed yelled.
"What happened?" Winry asked. "It happened so fast I probably blinked and missed it."
"Oh, the usual messing around," Granny Pinako guessed. "When Renea and Winry were younger they would always do that on each other, usually Renea winning."
"Well, I can't help that she's an alchemist, and me only a mechanic," Winry whined. "Besides, that was a long time ago. I wouldn't think I could do that anymore—"
"Tag, you're it," I whispered, touching her shoulder, and I teleported myself to the forest at the rocky area of Resembool.
"She's never getting me!" I announced, and I hid behind a boulder in case this was the last place they would come to.
When I saw them approaching, I teleported myself and left a huge bright green light, one that shone when I preformed alchemy, and appeared sitting at the opposite side of Resembool, by the river and sunset.
"Ah, this is nice," I muttered to myself. "Just like the old days with Sayuki." I had a flashback.
"Sister, why do you want to do alchemy so much?" I asked, skipping a flat stone across the river. It reached all the way to the other side. "Well, our family is poor," she explained. "Our real father left us because of another woman soon after I was born, and he took all his money with him. Alchemy is a better choice than having to work." "True," I stated, "but didn't the two people who used to live here left because of alchemy?" "Well, they did something they shouldn't have," Sayuki said. "What did they do?" I asked, pleadingly.
"Sayuki, Renea!" our mother, Ellie yelled from the other side of the river. "Come home! Dinner's ready and it's getting dark. I'm getting worried about you two!" "Coming, Mom!" Sayuki yelled, and she grabbed my hand and pulled me over the bridge and over to Mom.
I snapped out of my flashback when I heard my name in Winry's voice behind me. I waved without turning around and she sat next to me, and Ed and Al on the other side of me.
"We looked for you a long time," Ed said. "What are we supposed to be doing today anyways?"
"Nothing," I said. "It is gonna be Saturday tomorrow. We might as well take a break."
"So far, we found out Father Cornello was really using alchemy and calling them miracles to fool his people," Ed said. "The Stone around his finger was actually a fake Philosopher's Stone."
"Whoa… Fake?" I asked. "Father Cornello's name is pretty familiar. I knew a girl, she had brown hair and some purple bangs in front of her face, and she used to believe him. I forgot what her name was."
"Rose?" Ed asked, and it came back to me.
"Yeah, that's it," I said. "Rose. She was a nice girl, ever since Father Cornello brought her boyfriend 'back to life'."
"Yeah, he was only a bird," Al said. "Using those animals' lives and giving them to her boyfriend, now that's just wrong."
"Guys, we should get back," Winry warned. "It's getting dark."
"The old Winry," Ed and I said at the same time, and we laughed.
"Looking after us like always, as if she was the responsible one," I joked, and I ran over to the bridge, clapped my hands and disappeared.
I reappeared at Winry's house at the table, sitting with a fork and knife in my hand. Soon, Ed and Al appeared right at the table on either side of me, and Winry came by soon after at the door.
"No fair!" she whined. "Sometimes I regret ever becoming a mechanic."
"Well, it's not too late," I said, cutting the steak and stuffing it in my mouth.
"Nah, I'd rather not risk killing myself," Winry said, taking a piece of the mashed potatoes and putting it on her plate.
After dinner, we all sat in the bedroom, trying to figure out what we were gonna do in the morning.
"Going back to Central is just a death trap," I whined. "Since the military is there, all the state alchemists are there, right? And Scar, or my uncle—" I couldn't believe it! —"is the serial killer! He's gonna go after us!"
"Okay, so it's the last place we could ever go to," Ed said, crossing that off the map. "Liore, we just got back from there three days ago, I don't get the point in going back."
"The Ishbalans fled to a new area," I said. "Who knows where that could be?"
"Only the Ishbalans know," Al pointed out. "Going back to where Father Cornello was is just going to get us into more trouble with the people."
"Yeah…" Ed said, crossing that place out too.
"So far, three places are crossed out," Al noted. "Aerugo, Liore, and Central."
"Youswell Coal Mines?" I asked. "I hate the people there, especially the inn managers."
"Oh, that place," Ed said, crossing that out instantly. "I gave that hotel owner the deed to the whole city itself, and I don't think they'll need our help anymore."
"Dublith sounds familiar," I said, scratching my head. "I think I remember getting taught there about alchemy…"
"Us too," Ed said, hesitant about crossing that out, but ended up leaving that as an option. "Our Teacher lives there, Mrs. Izumi, with her husband."
"We could go there," I said, "but let's keep looking."
"Ishbal is the second least likely place I'll be going," I said as soon as I remembered what Deceiver told me. "Knowing an Ishbalan is part of the military is just a death sentence." I took the red pen from Ed and crossed it out.
"O-Okay," Ed said, and I gave him the red pen back.
"Well, all the other places have nothing to do with the Philosopher's Stone," I muttered, "well, because I've been to most of them, but I guess we'll just go to Dublith tomorrow morning."
"Agreed," Al and Ed said together, setting down their pens. I yawned. "Let's catch some sleep—" I suddenly got cut off when I suddenly disappeared like I did when using alchemy (except I did it without knowing) and appeared right by the river where we just were this afternoon, facing a curly black-haired woman and a fat, shorter guy.
"So, you're Renea, eh?" the lady asked.
"I suppose," I said sarcastically, "but who are you?"
"Oh, you've heard of me lots of times by the Elric Brothers, I assume," she rasped on, tapping her chin. "You think the name Lust sounds familiar?"
"Lust, can I eat her now?" the shorter guy asked his voice creaky.
"No, Gluttony," Lust said, patting his head like a dog. "She's one of the human sacrifices."
"Human sacrifice?" I asked. That sounded familiar, when Hohenheim told me the false truth. "Wait, but how did I get here without wanting to?"
"Well, I can control one's actions to my commands," Lust explained, and suddenly her fingers of her right hand sharpened and extended, and nearly passed my neck, and they stabbed the tree right behind me. "You know what will happen if I move my hand just a tiny bit, right?" Lust asked, smiling.
"Just don't do it n-now… please…" I begged.
"Renea!" I heard Ed and Al yell from my left, and Lust and Gluttony instantly turned their heads in surprise. This was my chance.
I clapped my hands, teleported myself behind Lust and kicked her right in the back. I clapped my hands again and a huge bolt of lightning flew from my hands and split in two, shocking Gluttony and Lust at the same time.
While they were stunned on the ground, I ran to Ed and told him everything that happened.
"She can control one's actions to her commands?" Al asked, sounding dumbfounded. "She's probably the strangest of the Homunculus…" Lust moaned from the ground and stood up.
"You can't kill a Homunculus that easy," she sneered, and her fingers launched straight at me, Ed and Al, but we instantly drew up a wall of rock for her to stab instead of us. She took her fingers out, and the rock wall crumbled.
"Ed, let's take this fight to a safer spot," I said. "I can't afford to see Winry's grave anytime soon." But the farther end of Resembool (with the forest and huge boulders) was just behind Lust and Gluttony, and we had to get past them. And that was probably the only easy part.
"Guys, get deep into the forest and if you see them coming, don't attack until we're all together," Ed whispered, and we clapped our hands and disappeared into the forest, with Al soon following.
"Hide in the trees," I said. "You can attack from above."
We hung in the leaves and waited.
Soon after we waited Lust and Gluttony ran into the forest looking for us.
"Hey, Ed, do you know what Lust meant by 'human sacrifices'?"
"Well, she said that to us one day, and I still don't get what she meant by that," Ed said, still keeping an eye on the Homunculi. "We'll find out soon, okay?"
"Yeah."
"Now!" Al yelled, and Ed and I clapped our hands, and a huge bolt of lightning from my hands charged itself towards Gluttony and Lust, but didn't hit them. Perfect, I thought. Hiding in the dust, Ed and Al will be, and they'll be in for a surprise. Suddenly, Gluttony jumped from the dust and chomped his mouth over my automail arm, hanging only from it with the boulders and sharp rocks below.
"Does it taste good, Gluttony?" I asked sarcastically, and I clapped my hands together and shocked him off.
"Renea, it seems that they fled after the dust cleared," Al said, brushing his metal armor clean.
"They'll probably come back," I said, pulling back my sleeve to inspect the damage Gluttony did. His large teeth made large dents, since he was only hanging from my arm.
"This is easy enough," Al said, drawing a transmutation circle on my arm and repairing it without the pain. I yawned twice as much as I did before Lust and Gluttony came.
"Let's get some sleep, guys, since tomorrow's train to Dublith leaves pretty early." We all teleported ourselves into the room to find Winry staring at us in disdain.
"God, you guys!" she yelled, slamming the door closed behind her. "You were killing me! I was worrying too much about you guys to go and help you!" I fingered the dents quietly in the corner, and replied, "Sorry."
"Oh, okay," Winry said sarcastically. "That's all you can say? Sorry!? Jeez, what's wrong with alchemists these days?"
"Nothing," Ed said, spinning his pocket watch the same way he did when he found out I was half automail. "It's just how much mechanics worry these days."
After that awkward conversation with Winry (we didn't tell her anything about the Homunculus) we finally slept, with Al and Ed on the beds and me on the recliner in the corner. During my sleep, my lost memories were coming back.
"Sayuki, can you fix the dinner?" our mother, Ellie, asked, putting the newly washed plates. "Sure, Mom," Sayuki replied, and she drew a transmutation circle on each of the plates and there was a bright light. Once it faded, I saw a full meal for three prepared and ready in just a few seconds.
"Thanks, Sissy!" I exclaimed, sitting down and stuffing my mouth.
"No problem, Renea," she said, sitting down next to me and suddenly stuffing her face herself. Our mom sat herself politely and cut her steak slowly.
"Food's better when you savor it," she said, putting it in her mouth. "Sorry, Mom…" I and Sayuki apologized, and we did what she did.
After the dinner, we sat at the couch and did our usual talking like we did when Mom thought of the idea of "family time".
"Mom, why did Dad leave me so young?" Sayuki asked a question that didn't include me yet. "It's really hard to explain, and it's a long story," Mom said, tears coming to her eyes.
"We've got plenty of time, Mom," I said. "We just want to know so we can understand why you're crying."
"He left because of…" she started, "… another woman."
"Another?!" Sayuki yelled. "He left me three months old for another woman?"
"I told you it's hard, Sayuki," Mom said, wiping a tear making a path down her cheek. "He told me why soon before he left, as if he rehearsed it, he left with a straight face—"
We were suddenly interrupted when the front and back doors busted open.
"Don't budge!" someone yelled, a female voice. It was Lieutenant Riza, younger, from what I remember. We froze, and the military charged in, and from instincts, we all ran for the windows. I happened to make it, but Sayuki and Mom were shot straight in the back, something I couldn't forget. I managed to escape to Winry's house as a fugitive.
"Winry! Granny Pinako!" I cried, hugging them tightly. "Keep me safe from the military, please!"
"They just came in," Granny Pinako said, hugging me closer. "They were looking for you, your sister and your mother," Winry said, sitting next to me. "We kept it hidden, but they ran straight to your house when we begged them not to go."
"Dammit," I cried, falling to my knees. "I have no place to stay, since that place will (and I know) be checked again in case I come back."
"You can stay with us, Renea," Winry said, but, as if my day could get any worse, came in a mysterious man standing by the doorway with blond hair in a ponytail in the back.
"I need Renea," he said deeply, and he spotted me in the corner, and grabbed my wrist, and took me away.
Winry and Aunt Granny Pinako looked stunned, but they didn't move, as if they knew that this man was going to kill anybody that got in his way of getting me. "Sir, where are we going—?"
"Renea, wake up!"
I smacked my lips and shielded my eyes from the incoming sun.
"Finally, Renea, you're awake!" Al yelled, helping me up. "Hurry, get dressed! The train's gonna leave for Dublith in fifteen minutes and Brother's been waiting for you!" I instantly sat up, and told Al:
"I'll be there, just go and tell Ed to wait a little longer."
"Okay," he said, nodding and taking off.
I dressed in my normal clothes, stuffed my pocket watch in there and took nothing else with me. I ran out the door, hugged Winry and said goodbye to Granny Pinako, took a glazed donut with me and ran out the door. I transmuted myself into the station, paid for my ticket and boarded. Just for a little surprise, I quietly sat myself in the sofa behind Ed, so he won't spot me.
I poked my head over, and Al saw me. I put my finger over my mouth, and he gave me the thumbs-up quietly.
"She told you she was coming, but she's not!" Ed complained, folding his arms and slumping.
"Come on, Brother, she's gonna come here sooner or later," Al reassured, "even if it does mean that she's gonna have to take the next train."
Under my cloak, I transmuted a cake, one that looked identical to my ninth birthday when Mother and Sayuki were still with me, and smeared some on my finger. The train started moving, and I teleported the cake right outside Ed's window, so it looked like someone threw it at them.
"Happy Birthday Renea...?" Ed asked confusingly.
While he was staring at the window, I snuck up behind him and quietly took a seat.
"Wow, thanks, even though it's not my birthday," I said, and he turned around, shocked, and I smeared the cake on his nose.
"Gotcha!"
"Oh, COME ON RENEA!" he yelled, wiping it off and it disappeared, just as the cake on the window disappeared like it didn't happen. I laughed.
"Well, nothing but a little fun before going on the road, I suppose?" I said, looking out the window. I transmuted the donut in my hand.
"I'm gonna think of a way to get you back," he said. "For that, and for that one day when you nearly wrecked Winry's house."
"That was yesterday," Al pointed out.
"What? Time flies fast when you're having fun," Ed said. "But where'd you get the cake?"
"Where an alchemist always gets it," I said, smiling.
"When are you gonna catch on to anything Renea does, Brother?" Al said, sounding disappointed.
"Probably never, but maybe faster than her catching on to me," Ed said, "since she's such a shrimp."
"Was that supposed to be funny?" I asked, fuming.
"Well, it's just that he never called anybody short before," Al explained as-a-matter-of-factly. "He enjoys it."
"Oh, and he thinks I do?" I demanded.
"You're right, Fullmetal," a deep voice rambled. "Insulting people, no, insulting Renea for your own expense is highly dangerous." Colonel Mustang came around the corner from the dining cart, holding the same donut I had.
"Colonel, what are you doing here?" I asked, taking a bite from my donut.
"Well, I'm taking the train to Dublith, like you guys," Colonel Mustang said. "If you wanna know why, some people know of the serial killings over there, and we wanna get some information." I got uneasy, since he mentioned Scar. Please don't tell them, I thought, as if my thinking would get to Ed and Al's mind. But to think of it, I can transmute anything, can't I?
I transmuted my thoughts to Ed, and after awhile, he looked back at me and said, "Did you say anything?"
"No," I said, giggling to myself.
It's me, Renea.
"You said something, I swear!" he said.
I'm transmuting my thoughts to you, dummy! Didn't think I could do that?
"Something wrong?" Colonel Mustang asked, finishing off his donut and licking his fingers.
"No, just having a sitcom, Colonel," Ed explained.
"No, because I saw you three get uneasy around the serial killings part," Colonel Mustang said, sitting at the opposite side of the aisle.
"Oh, don't worry about that," Al said. "It's all okay."
"If you insist," he said. "But if you need to talk to me about Scar, don't hesitate. We need all the information we can get." "Yes, sir," I muttered.
"Colonel? Why are you paired up with Lieutenant Riza?" I popped up. "I've noticed that it's not because of your ranks."
"Well, so far, you're the only one to really notice," Colonel Mustang whispered. "But just to be safe, I'll tell you guys."
He stopped, hesitated, and then finally said, "I'M IN LOVE WITH HER…"
"Aw, military love, ain't that nice?" I said, slapping my hand over my mouth.
What? I have ADD. I just blurt things out without me knowing. Unless… no, she's done with us, she can't attack that soon!
I could tell Ed gave transmuting his thoughts a try, and he told me:
Probably, probably not. But you never know. Anyways, is ADD a disease?
Not a disease, but like… something you're born with, something you can't get rid of.
I see.
Do you?
No, not really.
Same old Ed.
Hey, when's your birthday anyways?
Halloween.
Cool.
"Colonel, I give you my best wishes, even if it does mean that she'll kill you if she finds out," I said, taking another small bite of my donut.
"When you say it like that, it sounds like you're gonna tell her," Al said.
"What? What's wrong with giving him luck with Lieutenant Riza?" I muttered, finishing off my donut. "Besides, it's not my choice that I should. It's guaranteed from me."
"Yeah, uh, okay…" Colonel Mustang muttered. "Sorry I even mentioned."
The train ride was very, very, VERY tiring, since there wasn't really anything to talk about. Occasionally Al would pop up with something randomly like, "Nice weather." Me, Ed and Colonel Mustang would agree, and the talking would stop. It was as if we were lost in our own thoughts. And, I was. I was thinking about that one dream, when the strange man took me away.
"Sir, where are we going?" I asked nervously, trying to wrench my hand out of his tight grip.
"You see those burned ruins?" he asked politely, as if he didn't want to offend me with the slightest of words. I nodded. "There's a house right over that hill, and it's abandoned," he continued. "We'll stay there."
"But why are you taking me with you?" I asked.
"Something's about to happen; you can't afford to be at Winry's house alone," he said.
"You mean, when it happens, I'll be at their house alone, and I won't have help?" I asked, thinking about mom and Sayuki.
"Yes," he said, and we stopped at the foothills of the hill. I didn't ask the question about what was gonna happen to me; I doubt the man would even tell me.
I remembered what my mother told me, "I wonder if your father will come back. If he does, I doubt he'll try to even kill you."
"Um, sir, do you know a nice lady named Elizabeth Haruhi or Ellie for short?" I asked, hoping the name would call out to his memory.
"Yes, yes I do," he said, gently letting go of my wrist. I didn't budge. "She was a nice wife…" "You're my father?!" I demanded. "It seems so," he said. "But, you didn't look anything like you did when you were just born, Sayuki."
"Oh, no, Sayuki's my older sister," I corrected. "My name's Renea. You left before I was born, and when Sayuki was only a baby."
"I see," he said, understanding. "Well, when the horrible thing happens, just be ready." "Yes, sir— I mean, Dad…" I muttered, trying to find the right words.
The train whistled sounded, snapping me out of my remembering.
"Come on, Renea," Ed said, getting up from his seat. "We're here."