His letters describe fantastic places and things she's never even heard of, and sometimes she gets a little bit jealous. There's a gypsy girl called Noah, who dances with the flames and weaves ribbons in her hair, and Winry wonders if Ed wants someone more exotic. There's a sweet-faced maid in the coastal town called Katie, and Winry wonders if Ed wants someone more feminine.
But she knows that Ed's a friend to every living thing even if he denies it, and he's too oblivious for the thought of another girl to even cross his mind. Winry ends up more concerned for the broken hearts he's probably leaving behind.
And, in time, she learns to appreciate the photographs he sends with the envelopes, even if they are of Katie and Noah and Ella and Estelle, because they're also of Don and David and Jonas and Smitty, and of the forests of Dienten and the cliffs of Vearnin and the orchards of Xenotime.
He sees beauty everywhere these days, and even if it's through a frozen image, she's seeing it with him.