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I wake to a pounding ache in my head. It feels like someone else is inside, trying to force their way out. Lan Fan is still sleeping across the room on her bed. She looks like she's having a nightmare, clutching her prosthetic arm and whimpering.
I find myself wondering, yet again, what could have taken her arm like that. What could live out there? What are we up against?
A loud bell sounds, startling me to jump about a foot off the bed.
Lan Fan wakes with a slight start. She's probably used to it, but her nightmare must have been pretty bad.
"Good morning." She says, rubbing her eyes.
"Good morning. There's a question I forgot to ask you yesterday."
"What?" She yawns.
"Are you one of the kids who goes in the maze?" She freezes. Looking right at me.
"It... It depends... The rehabilitation process for the prosthetics is really tough... so, some days I go out, and some days Ling goes out for me. It depends on how Winry thinks I'm doing that day." She explains solemnly. "It's annoying because I'm probably a faster runner than Ed."
"When's breakfast?" I ask, now feeling kind of uncomfortable with the look she's giving me.
"In about half an hour. Elycia needs time to cook after the wake-up."
"Is that what that bell's called?"
"Yeah." She stands and stretches, pulling back on her metal arm.
"So, Ed's gonna give you the tour today right?" She asks as we walk towards the door.
"Yes I am." He enters the room, his golden eyes fixed on me. "Good morning Emily, or do you want me to call you something else?" He smiles kindly.
"You can call me Em if you want."
"Okay Em, let me show you around."
He's shown me the dining area, the farming area, the blacksmithing area, the building where the council meets, the hall for the people who go into the maze, and the graveyard.
There are only three graves, Roy and Riza's graves, and another for someone named Tobias.
"Ed... There's something I need to know... What's a homunculus?"
He looks at me in shock. "How..."
"Lan Fan said one of them took her arm, and they killed Roy and Riza. What are they?"
"They're monsters that live in the maze. Lan Fan was lucky to escape just missing an arm, she could have gotten stung by one of them." He says sadly, staring at the ground.
"What do you mean, stung?"
"If you get stung by one of them, you see the truth. And that's enough to drive some people insane. But it tells you bits and pieces about your past."
"Is that why you don't want Elycia to go in the maze? You're scared that she'll get stung?"
"Yeah, I feel responsible for her, like it's my fault something happened to her and I have to make it up to her."
"I'm sure that isn't true." I'm not actually sure, but Ed couldn't have hurt anyone.
"There are seven homunculi, they all have names and look like humans, but all they want is to kill us."
"Which one took her arm?" I ask, already thinking about forms of revenge.
No, that's her revenge. She should be the one to kill whoever took her arm.
"From the way she described him, we had to assume it was Wrath. Lucky her, if it had been any of the others, they would have killed her a lot faster. Wrath seems to be the only one with any kind of respect for human emotion, and usually tells his victims something about their past before he kills them."
"What are the other's names?" Dread filling me, is this what Ed and Al have to face every day?
"Envy, Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Pride, and Sloth. Named after the seven sins of humanity." I've heard someone say that before, someone has definitely explained this to me. The memory is just below the reachable surface, clawing at the wall, trying to pull itself out. But it continually fails.
"ED! ED!" Ling's voice calls, running toward us.
"What is it Ling?" Ed asks, curiosity replacing his sad expression.
"I... I found Lust dead! She's dead!" Ling is gasping for air and kneeling on his knees.
"What! I thought they couldn't die!"
"Well apparently they can!" Ling replies, his voice a mixture of forced anger and happiness.
"Show me her body, now! I need to see it!"
"Okay... but it's a little ways out, you planning on bringing Al?" Ling asks as if expecting Ed to say yes.
"No. If we got caught by one of them then it would put him in danger too. I don't want to risk that." Ed begins walking towards the direction Ling came from.
"Now show me her body!" He commands, leaving me alone standing in the graveyard.
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