Equivalent Exchange--Episode 1: Shattered Love

[unleashed]

“Yes, I did... didn’t I,” Rose says proudly, smiling, “Hmm, I wonder if I could have done Alchemy that way all along...”

 

[Dire Lemming]

"Um, hm." Al looks confused, but he doesn't say anything else about it, remembering her reaction the last time he said something about it. "I think it's safe to go after her now." he says, as he claps his hands together and places them on the ground, causing the spikes to retract. "Still we should be careful, she seems to think we're a threat and she has that strange alchemy..." he picks up the lantern again and attempts to light it. Once he does he looks back once more at Rose and then heads forward in the direction the woman fled.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Al manages to light the lantern without much trouble, and so they continue in the direction the woman fled, walking down a hallway towards a small room with some stairs. However, there are loud sounds seeming to come from within the wall on the hallway's left side, though there is no sign of a door.*

 

[Dire Lemming]

Al moves to the door and puts his ear to it. If he can't hear anyting clearly he will trasmute a peephole into the wall.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: I said there is no door The sound is coming from a bare wall. Still making the peephole)

 

[Dire Lemming]

(OOC: Ack! I knew there was no door, I could have sworn I typed wall. Oh well, yes, peephole.)

 

[unleashed]

“If you think so, Al,” Rose answers cautiously, supplicating and placing her hands on the floor, as she returns the section that was restraining the plant to it’s normal state as well. When Al looks around, after lighting the lantern, she nods and follows him, a smile on her face.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Al tries to listen to the wall. He makes out a bit of talking, though not clearly:*

".........her off quickly........Elric is here.......can't let........again, my love!"

*Al transmutes a peephole to peek beyond the wall. There is a secret room that looks like it was an alchemical laboratory, but it was turned into a battleground, transmutation circles drawn in chalk on several surfaces and pieces of the room torn up as if transmuted into walls, attacks, and the like. The woman from before stands near the wall just in front of it, though she has her back turned to Alphonse's hole so she can't see where he is peeking through. She is occluding the view of what appears to be a figure, or perhaps two figures locked in an embrace or grapple, in the back shadows.*

 

[Dire Lemming]

Al doesn't want to provoke the woman into attacking him again, as such he figure the best thing to do would be to get her attention while there is something solid in between them. He turns back to Rose and whispers, "I'm going to try to talk to her one more time, but if she still acts crazy when she sees me be ready, ok?" He opens his peephole to about six inches and says "Um, Excuse me, Miss? Look, we're not a threat, I just want to know what you know about my brother." He watches her cautiously getting ready to leap away if she still starts attacking again.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"You!?" she hisses, "What's your problem? You were there--you should know! If I come out and tell you, will you go away?"