Chapter 4: The Pondering Homunculus

Pride sat in his room with the door locked; it wasn't much of a room, to him it felt more like a cell. It had been an uncomforting place since he had been there. He didn't even know exactly where his "home" was located in Central. All he knew was that it was underground and there were lots of connecting tunnels where Envy took him, wherever he wanted to cause mayhem.

He lay on his cot and stared at the picture of the girl that he had in his hands. That night in the rain, he saw her. He wanted to talk to her, but knew that Envy was probably nearby and didn't want to be punished.

'Who was she?'

He asked himself this question over and over again.

'She seemed like she knew me, I could tell by the look on her face. She called me a name, but why? Maybe she can tell me about these pictures and who these people are. Brother said that he was going to be busy tomorrow, so maybe I can find her and ask her my questions.'

Pride held his hand up to the light that was in his room and looked at the tattoos on his arm.

'Why do I seem so different than Brother and the others?'

He also thought of this question and then he would go through all the facts that he knew in his head: He was the youngest, he has no recollection of anything in his past, and he could do alchemy, which no other Homunculus could do, he also had no pleasure of doing anything that Envy found delightful.
Pride's head started to hurt from all of the pressure caused by the stressful thinking. He turned his attention back to the beautiful, green-eyed girl in the photo. Pride had to meet her, but he had to do it so that Envy would not find out.

Pride needed some air, so he got up and left his room. He decided to take a walk in one of the tunnels, as he was walking towards one of them he heard someone call after him,

"Pride! Where are you going?"

He turned around to see Lust behind him, she was good-looking homunculus, and she wore a dark green dress and also had purple eyes like Envy.

"Nowhere. I'm just going for a walk. I won't be long"

Lust nodded and walked away without saying a word.

Pride turned and walked into the tunnel; it smelled like rats and garbage. After walking in the tunnel for a few minutes, he stopped and looked up at a grate, which led outside. He saw that the moon was out so he stared at that; it made him feel at peace.

'Tomorrow. I'll go out tomorrow and try to find that girl. I need to talk to her, I'll find out where she lives and I can talk to her then. She has to know something about me, but I have to do so that Brother doesn't get suspicious'

Pride took out the photos and looked at them again. He looked back at the moon and headed back.

"I should go back to my room before everyone wonders where I was".

He headed out of the tunnel and returned to his room.