(Introducing a chapter that takes place . . . considerably after the others? I was a little hesitant to do a chapter while they're on the road, feels like we're going into a different story, but it was the best timing for this.)
Greed walked through the forest towards the lights in the distance. He could hear the footsteps of people behind him, but they weren't talking at the moment, and he was perfectly okay ignoring them. They reached the edge of the forest, a good sized town now in sight, right outside the forest. Greed was about to step onto the road right outside it when Ling spoke up.
"Hey Greed, what are you doing?"
"Going into the town, what does it look like?" Greed asked.
"Um. . ." one of the chimeras started.
"Let it happen," Ed said.
That was one nice thing about being with these three. Okay, they occasionally questioned things like this, but for the most part Greed could talk out loud to 'himself' without worrying about being caught.
"You can't go there. We're still really close to Central, and do you think the other homunculi will let us go that easy?"
"They did last time," Greed said. Okay, maybe they'd looked for him, but if so they'd done such a terrible job Greed had never noticed.
"You weren't with a sacrifice last time," Ling pointed out.
Greed hated it when he made sense. "But I want to go into town." Greed tried to move, but his legs weren't working, the best he could do was sway on the spot a little. "Come on Prince! Give up your legs!"
At this point Ed was laughing, and made no attempts to hide it. Greed glared at him.
"Need us to vote on something?" Ed asked. He was still, clearly laughing.
"No way," Greed said. He turned back towards the town. "What do you say?" he asked Ling. "Got a way to decide without voting?"
"You give me a hand and we play rock paper scissors?"
Well that seemed a little silly but at least it would end the argument quickly. Greed gave him back control of one hand the two clenched their hands into fists. Then they spoke 'rock, paper, scissors' in unison, although the only voice the others could hear was Greed's. Greed played rock, Ling played paper.
Wait what? Greed thought.
Ling had just won. Greed had just lost. Lost!
"But . . . what? How?" Greed asked.
Greed was in charge. If anything, he should've been able to predict what Ling was going to do. Ling shouldn't have won of all things.
"Uh . . . Greed? We done yet?" Ed asked.
"This is taking a while," Darius said.
"We should've sat down ages ago," Heinkel agreed.
Greed could hear the two of them shifted around. In his head, Ling just laughed.
"No! Don't sit down," Greed said, spinning around on his heel. "We have to go back and camp in the woods because somebody, doesn't think towns are safe."