So, here's the next chapter! Thank you to all my friends who will never read this for convincing me to read The Maze Runner, and to Shauriene for introducing me to FMA!
A lot of this chapter is filler, so if you don't like it, that's probably why.
Enjoy!
Apparently I'm sharing a room with some girl named Lan Fan. She also has a prosthetic arm.
"Does everyone here have a prosthetic arm?" I ask.
"No. One of the homunculi took it." She says calmly.
"One of the what?" I ask.
She seems to have just realized she made some kind of mistake.
"Nothing, it's nothing."
"Well, it's the thing that took your arm. If you don't think that's a big deal..."
"It's not."
"Okay then."
There's obviously something she's not telling me, but I can ask Edward about that tomorrow.
"So, do you know how you lost your eye? Do you have a title?"
"What do you mean, 'Do you have a title?'"
"Some of us remembered a title when we came out of the box. I didn't, but Ling, Edward, and some other kids did."
"Yes I did. It was "The Half-Sighted Alchemist." If it refers to me, I understand why." I reach my flesh hand up and touch the rough fabric of my eyepatch.
"I'm guessing you don't know how your lost your eye?"
"No, sorry. Anyway, do you know anything about your past?"
"There is one thing... when Ling arrived, about two weeks after me, he looked familiar. I'm sure I knew him, and I feel... protective of him."
"So... do you think you were together before you came here?"
"Maybe..."
We look each other right in the eye for a few seconds until it starts to get awkward.
"What time is it?" I ask.
"Elysia will be making dinner soon. She's a really good cook."
"Elysia?"
"She's the youngest of all of us, so Edward doesn't want her doing anything dangerous."
"About Edward... Was he the first?"
She looks really sad as she speaks.
"No, he was the third."
"What happened to the people before him?" I ask, pretty sure of the answer already.
"Their names were Roy and Riza. They... They went into the maze one day and didn't come back out, after that, Ed only let the fastest people enter the maze. The people who could get back before the doors close." She explains solemnly.
"Is Ed one of them?" I ask, worry suddenly taking hold of me.
"Yeah, along with Alphonse. Those two are inseparable." She shakes her head slightly. "If anything happened to either of them..."
"If the doors close, which doesn't sound possible anyway, why weren't they out there today?" I ask, even more worried, what if one of them was hurt?
"They don't go out on the last day of the week because that's the day new kids come."
I feel relief. For some reason, I feel connected to Edward and Alphonse.
It's like I know them, but I don't. It's the weirdest feeling.
And what's out there that took Lan Fan's arm? What killed Roy and Riza?
So, that was a filler chapter. As you can probably tell, the greevers have been replaced with homunculi.
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