text | how to stay entertained and ride the adrenaline factor

[lyingheart]

If anyone here would be tempted to base jump off a building with a parachute for either:

1. Money
   
2. Goodwill, or
   
3. Fun

Please respond here. I'm being asked to assist in finding volunteers for an elaborate act happening next Saturday.

Post script: Karen, this is slowing things down.

[ ooc: related to this plot next Saturday. ]

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[hands4healing]

[She's a little affronted at that, Annie.]

Ed's my best customer! I have to take care of him.

[lyingheart]

[ Annie can't begin to imagine why. She's not making any sort of weighted statement - but text, alas, does not carry tone well. ]

And you care for him, so you wouldn't leave him to handle what he's poorly equipped to work with on his own.

[hands4healing]

Well, I couldn't do anything with the alchemy, but I could help with his arm.

[Mollified.]

[lyingheart]

The work you do with automail being something Edward praises. Your dedication does you credit.

[ to the devotion she feels to both parts of that equation, really, but she's... not going to point that out. no reason. it's just there to be seen. ]

[hands4healing]

[Like she's going to realize it, when it's directly in her face, most of the time.]

Thank you. But most automail engineers are devoted to their work!

[lyingheart]

Most probably don't jump off cliffs with the person wearing their work whose known them since childhood simply to help said person.

[hands4healing]

[Whut R U saying Annie.]

If a customer is wearing an engineer's work, that engineer should do whatever's possible to keep the customer moving forward!

[Deny, ignore, obfuscate.]

[lyingheart]

So you've done that with your other customers. Repeatedly. Unprompted.

[hands4healing]

Well, no. None of the others get into the kind of scrapes Ed does. They're mostly older, except for Tetsuo, and his mother is thrilled the automail I made for him is so sturdy.

[lyingheart]

Then there's a difference.

[hands4healing]

In that Ed's trouble, yes!

[lyingheart]

Your trouble.

[hands4healing]

Someone has to keep him focused.

[lyingheart]

Of course.

[ and winry has elected to. it's all good. ]

[hands4healing]

[Elected, been assigned by Ed, whichever.]

He really needs Al.

[lyingheart]

How long has his brother been back home for by now?

[hands4healing]

A little over a month. I know he misses Al.

[And she's no substitute, but that's all right, Winry never expected to be.]

[lyingheart]

Many people miss family, or those they regard as family, when they leave.

[hands4healing]

I know.

[But do they feel the guilt Ed does?]

[lyingheart]

[ Does it matter? Is it a contest? ]

Mm. May they be reunited sooner rather than later.

[hands4healing]

[Not a contest. Just an observation.]

That would be so amazing.

[lyingheart]

They're both around still back home? At the same time?

[hands4healing]

They were before I arrived here.

[lyingheart]

Then there's at least that much to count on for now.

[hands4healing]

And I've been told it works out all right.

[For them, at least. She's waiting to find out if she survived.]