Three days passed like a few hours for Roy Mustang. Most of the remaining students in the school had died from blood-loss or internal problems that the doctors weren't able to identify and fix soon enough. Only about fifteen were stable now, another thirty were still iffy.

Roy was thankful that Armstrong wasn't here to see this. He wasn't sure the other man would have been able to handle it.

The colonel sighed as he walked down the bland hospital hall. He was visiting the blonde girl. After she said they came from the other side, she passed out. She woke up yesterday but with how crazy things were, the colonel was just now coming to see her. She made a fuss saying she needed to speak with him.

The situation was curious considering he hadn't said his name to her and his team had found her.

He stopped infront of the door and sighed. Two days without sleep was taking its toll on him but this needed to be done. Roy opened the door and his heart softened. The girl was a double of Fullmetal almost. Her blonde hair and eyes, the shape of her face. When she looked over at him, his heart almost stopped. If it weren't for the small lumps of breasts she had, he'd think he was looking at Fullmetal.

Roy stepped in and set a small bouquet on her bedside table. He gave her his signature charismatic smile.

"Thought this would bring out some color."

She had a stern look and his smile left.

"Be serious Colonel." Her voice was softer than Fullmetal's but still similar. They could be twins.

"I don't want to play political games or pretend to be happy right now." She continued. "There was a white haired girl in the room with me. Did she make it?"

The colonel sat in a chair next to her bed. He nodded softly at her. The girl's fist clenched into the sheet covering her single leg.

"You said she brought you here." Roy stated. The girl nodded.

"She made a transmutation circle. She brought us here and she won't bring us back." She stated. "It'd kill us if we tried anyways so we're stuck here…" Her eyes watered and she hit the bed.

The colonel didn't try to console her. There more than likely wasn't a way for this girl to go back to the other side, not alive anyways. He was just glad she wasn't so hopeful it made her foolish or just plain stupid enough to try to get back to her side.

"You lived on the other side of the gate?" He asked.

Her hand stopped shaking and she relaxed. She nodded.

"Yeah. I lived with my parents and they sucked but they were my parents. My sister was getting married in the fall…I was supposed to be her braid's maid…" She reminisced quietly.

Roy felt his eyes soften again. "I'm sorry for your loss."

She rubbed her eyes and nodded wordlessly.

After a beat, Roy opened his mouth but felt his breath taken from him. To be cast out into a world unknown, no family, friends most likely dead…He couldn't imagine her pain.

Finally, he asked, "What's your name?"

"Eden." She said softly and sniffled. Rubbing away her tears, she turned to look at the colonel for the first time and really took in his look. Roy felt his heart being tugged by her pitiful state.