Dayna looked up at the handsome, young man standing in front of her. His hair was short and black; he looked like he was in his twenties. He wore what she expected to be a military uniform with medals and other decorations on it.
She could still hear Ed mumbling things under his breath, all with a very unhappy look on his face.
"What's wrong Ed? You don't look happy to see me"
"You could have told me that you were coming here, Sir"
Al stepped forward to say something before Ed would come up with some smart-ass line to give the Colonel,
"Are you here by yourself Sir?"
"Yes Alphonse, I am and who is this charming young lady?" Mustang asked as he took Dayna's hand in his.
"This is Dayna, we meet her when we arrived. She's going to be staying at the hotel with us" said Al.
Mustang looked at Dayna, noticing the dirty patches on her face and the bandages on her arms and legs, which were visible because of the dress.
"Well, I just got my room before you arrived here, but I'll escort you to your room, I want to find out how you guys have been doing"
Ed, still mumbling took the key to their room and went into the elevator to the fourteenth floor, where their rooms were.
"Well, here we are! What do you think Dayna? Nice enough?" asked Ed.
Dayna ran into the room and looked all around at the wonderful furnishings that the room offered. She walked towards one of the beds and flopped onto it, grabbing the covers and putting her face into them.
"They smell so clean and they're so soft, it's been a while since I've felt this".
Roy looked at Dayna with a confused look on his face, at what she said.
Mustang, Ed and Al walked towards a couch and chair that were near a large coffee table and sat down.
"Well, let's get to it" said Mustang.
Dayna wandered into another room and called out to them,
"Ed! I'm going to take a shower, I shouldn't be too long."
"Ok, we'll be here"
Ed and Al talked with Roy about their journeys and anything that they had found out so far about the Philosopher's Stone, all the way until they ended up in Mirrengard and met Dayna.
"So. She has no home or family, huh?" asked Roy.
"Yeah. We just wanted to make her happy, but I can sense something about her. She seems to have suffered from something horrible, I know it, but we're too afraid to ask," replied Al.
Ed got up and walked around the couch,
"I'm getting hungry"
"Well, should we call for room service if…" Roy started to suggest when Ed put his and up and silenced him.
"Brother? What is it?"
"Listen. Do you hear that?"
Al and Roy were quiet and leaned forward to hear.
"…Your heart began to be scorched, and there was a smell of it…It was the end of your dream, and the start of everything…"
"It's singing, coming from the other room." said Al.
Ed slowly walked towards the end of the room, keeping very quiet, listening to the song.
"…The broken pieces of your dream pierce my heart…Leaving the pain, that I should never forget…"
'So pretty'
"…If my life is transient like a flower, I'll be in full bloom by your side…And after watching your smile, I'll fall alone, quietly…"
Ed found himself standing in front of the bathroom door. As he reached for the knob he wondered to himself,
'What's wrong with me? It's just singing, it felt like I was put into a trance. It was so pretty, but so sad, I have to find out about it'.
Ed turned the knob and opened the door and at that point, regretted it instantly. Standing in front of him was Dayna; wet and half-naked, fixing her towel and trying to brush her wet hair.
Ed's face became as red as his coat as stood in the doorway, Dayna turned around to see Ed and she dropped her hairbrush. Dayna's face turned red and Ed smiled, trying to make the situation better, coughed up what he could say at the moment,
"Um, Hi?"
The whole building seemed to shake as Dayna screamed at the top of her lungs. Al and Roy were wondering what was going on, when they saw Ed come around the corner screaming with Dayna very close behind him, in a towel trying to hit him with her hairbrush.
"ED! YOU PERVERT! I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS! I'M GOING TO PUT THIS HAIRBRUSH SOMEWHERE WHERE EVEN A DETECTIVE WOULDN'T FIND IT!"
" DAYNA! I'M SORRY! I DIDN'T MEAN IT, HONEST!" cried Ed, trying to avoid Dayna's wrath and a good beating with the hairbrush, until he tripped on his suitcase and Dayna beat him.
"I think I'll go to my room now and get some sleep. I'll see you guys tomorrow morning, well maybe just you Al, if Ed doesn't survive the terrifying wrath of a woman." said Roy as he quickly stepped out of the room.
"Goodnight Sir" called Al.