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Edward was facing his desk with a frown. He had a piece of paper in front of him, and there was a pen in his hand. Yes, he was supposed to be studying, but right now he had something more important to do. Except, somehow, it was not working out.

"Niisan? What are you doing?"
Alphonse peeked into the piece of paper over the pile of books that was separating the two of them.
"N…None of your business!"
"You're writing a letter to Winry, aren't you?"
"No! I was making some notes…"
Edward said as he hurriedly hid the paper under a book. He was blushing slightly.
"Whatever, niisan. Did you actually think you can fool me with that?"
Al said teasingly, and Ed turned into a brighter shade of red (or pink, whatever). He glared at Al, but after a few seconds, he buried his head into a pile of books.

"You miss her, don't you?"
"I don't……Ok, I do. Is it that obvious?"
"For me, yes."

After a moment of silence, Ed raised his head again.
"Do you think I'm being pathetic?"
"No. Why?"
"I told her that we won't go back anymore. But, I miss everything in Resembool. And…I even thought of writing a letter to her."
"That's not pathetic, niisan."
"I said we have nowhere to go back to. But then, what I'm doing…"
"Not going back doesn't mean that you can't keep in contact with her. No, since you can't go back, you should make sure that she's doing alright through some sort of communication. Writing a letter to her means you care, not that you want to go back."
"Thanks, Al. I feel a little better now…"
Ed said, as he looked away. Al tried to say something, but when he noticed a tear at the corner of his brother's eyes, he looked down to the book he was reading. A faint sobbing came to his ear, but he pretended to hear nothing.

xoxox

Dear Winry,

So how's everything going? Now we are staying at the house of a state alchemist, Tucker. He's called the Sewing Life Alchemist, because he succeeded in making a chimera that can speak and understand human language. Well, I wonder if you even understand what that means, since you don't really know anything about alchemy… We couldn't see it though, since it died shortly after it was made or something. That sucks, because I really wanted to see it… It could have helped with our purpose. Anyway.

We're gonna stay here until the exams to study. There are so much books here. There are also so much books with new information that we never knew about. I'm aiming to read everything here while I can stay…Get as much as I can. But they say that the library at Central has more than a hundred times as much books as this place, which is just… unimaginable. You have to be a state alchemist, though, to get in there. There's still so much to learn, I don't even know where to start. I really hope I can cram as much information I need to pass the exam.

Is Den fine? How about Pinako-bachan? Did anything unusual happen? Well…hope everything's fine. Hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,
Edward