It took a few moments for my eyes to adjust to the light outside the house. The woman's house was in the middle of a dense wood that I couldn't see out of in any direction. Not a single flag or banner was visible either. There was a single person in view, obviously they had been trying to watch through a window but had fallen asleep.
She had bright blond hair with a blue bow tying it up. She wore a simple blue and white vest and skirt with a leather belt. On the belt hung a whip and a keying, which had quite a few keys on it. There were 5 or 6 that were silver, and 4 that were bright gold. I wondered if I should wake her and see why she was spying on us, but I decided to continue my walk.
As I walked through the woods, careful to remember the way back, I wondered what the difference of this world was to mine. Amestris was a world where science and alchemy ruled, but what could this world do, and would alchemy even work? I stopped in my tracks. The hair on my arms stood on end at the fact I could now be powerless.
As my mind begins to run through scenarios, my leg gives out from underneath me. Sitting there in the woods I wonder if I was going to just be another person again. Why would it work? Every world has their own laws and time. They could be more advanced or complete idiots with no power at all. Thinking back to what the old woman said "Through the gate of the lion. A young man who is called Loki was supposed to appear, but instead you came through." What could that mean?
Out of pure instinct I clap my hands together and slam them onto the ground, expecting nothing to happen. Suddenly a simple transmutation circle burns itself into the grass around my hands. I stared at my own hands thinking that the imposable just happened. This world shouldn't let me use alchemy, it should have done nothing at all. But it had, my alchemy had broken down a worldly barrier. I rose up off the ground with the cane the woman had given me, and turned to see the girl that was asleep watching me, staring with wide eyes.
"What, what kind of magic was that?" she said, still looking at the scorched circle in the earth. "How did you come through Loki's gate? Who are you? How did you do that?" she rambled off questions like I had only a few seconds before I was going to disappear.
"My name is Darren. How I came through your friends gate, you know as much as I do. Maybe you should call him and ask if he knows anything. But what was that you said about magic?" I asked puzzled at the term. Magic was what people called alchemy before it was largely used.
She locked her eyes on mine and watched me for a moment. "He doesn't know, I already talked to him." She turned back toward the house. "You should go back; she has your false leg."
"Thanks, will I see you around?" I say as I begin to walk in that direction.
"Maybe, depends on what your intentions are here," She said with a wink before walking away. "and my name is Lucy. Just so you know."