armoredsoul | 5th Transmutation | FIRST INAUGURAL FOURTH WALL

[The flash of light was...weird, to say the least. Alphonse had been warned and he knew this thing was coming, but somehow he expected it to be different. More...impressive? But instead it's as if nothing had happened at all. Well, not quite--he can feel the tingling flow of alchemical energy again, something he hadn't ever been without until he'd crossed through the Gate with Edward.]

[His brother...]

[Al sighed and flopped down on the bed, staring at the floor. Would they be here, somewhere? People supposedly came and went with much greater ease during these events...it couldn't hurt to look. And some fresh air would probably do him some good, anyway.]

[He got up and was about to head out when he paused and looked back at the sheets on the bed. After a moment, he clapped his hands and a crackle of energy went over the fabric--]

[When Al steps out onto the street, it's with a jacket that some might find rather familiar over his shoulders, pulled closed against the chill.]

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_{[It's pretty much physically impossible for Wrath not to take credit for a take-down that ended as spectacularly as this, so the second Al asks who did that, the Homunculus' shaggy black-haired head pops over the edge of the roof, wearing a sharky grin that's practically too big for the face it rests in.]

[YES I DID IT, IT WAS ME!]}

How's the weather down there, Edw--

5th Transmutation | FIRST INAUGURAL FOURTH WALL

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