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Who: Anyone!
When: Day 41, Noon
Where: Common Room
What: Mingle!

[In the common room, there are large stacks of colored paper on a simple wood table, a bowl filled with all different types of writing tools, and a small sign.]

What do you desire?

[Feel free to draw or write or mingle. Kain may be around.]

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She died giving birth to me.

*...baw*

I'm very sorry.

There is no reason to be.

I lost my mother when I was very young. My father left, before that. Everyone's experience is different, so I can't truly say I understand, but I have an idea, at least. And that's why I'm sorry.

[frowning. what a horrible thing to have in common with someone.]

I know nothing about my mother. As far as I am concerned, she is a stranger to me. But father...[looong pause] I was only fifteen.

[pausing again to clear his throat.]

How...old were you? When you lost her?

Only five years old. Alphonse was a year younger.

[he can't imagine dealing with something like that at such a young age. his mother he didn't know, and his father -- while it was incredibly difficult -- he was fifteen at least. and he didn't have a younger sibling to look after, either.

why is loosing loved ones so common? :(]

[sadly] Only five years old...

*because it's a useful storytelling trope that our respective creators all seem to enjoy far too much*

Granny took care of us... our neighbor, she and her granddaughter were always like family to us, and more after that. But we missed her so much. I'd hoped to see her again, too, after...

[damn creators!]

That...that must have been difficult. [sighing] I'm so sorry.

*they're the worst*

It was. We were too young to really handle it well... we made a mistake, that made things worse. It's part of what I fixed, with my time in Sabra La Tau.

You mean the wish that was offered to you?

[mistake, offered a chance to fix said mistake by gods; well that just sounds familiar.]

What...kind of a mistake?

Mm. The larger part of it was to save hundreds of thousands of people, but with the wish I was able to fix what Al and I did... and what Izumi, and Roy did as well.

We all tried to bring someone back.

*...this is going to ping you isn't it?*

[oh boy does it ping him

he just freezes, as if struck by something, and his breath hitches. in a moment his gaze finds Ed, and he looks...shocked, and saddened. he had only met Roy once, but he remembers him. they're from the same place? And...Mrs. Izumi...they all tried...?]

T-to bring...f-from the dead?

*oh no why do you look like that I didn't want to make you so much sadder :( worrying now, but unsure just quite what to do to fix this... all he can do is answer*

Mm. Our mother, her child, and his ally.

[he's covering his face with his hand now.]

W-what happened?

[he sounds as if he's dreading the answer, but wants to know all the same. what kind of a price did you all pay? :(]

*if Wander is looking at all, he'll see Ed clutching his right shoulder as he answers*

...Bringing someone back wasn't possible. We all knew it before we started... but Izumi, Al and I were in grief, and Roy was forced... it took something from each of us. I... I'm sure you've noticed Izumi's condition, and that there's something not quite right about Alphonse. In my time, before I fixed everything, I had to use prosthetics for my arm and leg. I regained my limbs, but I still have the scars.

[noticing that and wincing when he mentions regaining his limbs. Mrs. Izumi...her sickness -- that's what it is about? What of Alphonse? He seems...normal. He's always wearing armor but that's the only odd thing about him.]

[speaking softly] T-there is always a price.

[and it saddens Wander that they didn't manage to succeed. he thought the impossible was always possible if one wanted it enough. what happened? why couldn't they succeed? they paid the price, why couldn't they get what they wanted?]

I am so sorry, Edward...

It was a deep price, that all of us paid. Roy... may have gotten off easiest. He lost his eyes, but would have otherwise lived. You've seen how ill Izumi is, and without what I did for Al, or what he and Granny did for me, both of us would have died there as well.

...But it was a long time ago. And I was able to set it all right, in my own timeline.

[c-can Wander hug you now, grandpa? because that is what he's going to try and do]

*well of course, and Ed will hug back*

Y-you managed to set it right.

[cling, and a looong pause]

...I have not figured out h-how to do that yet.

*softly*

There's always a way. It took me four years to fix everything, and the interference of a few gods... I'm sure there's a way for you, too.

Four years...

[s-sniffling]

Do you really think so?

Mm, I really do.

I cannot do much to make up for it from here...