[Video] Loose Screws 8

[hands4healing]

[Winry is at a furniture store that caters to ImPort fangirls and -boys. And totally bemused. So she has to share what she's found.]

I was window shopping today and I found...this.

[She turns the camera to show a soft giant robot, like a plushy version of those robots Hiro and Tadashi make. What she really wants to know is if Hiro and Tadashi know about them. Whether they're getting a commission.]

They say it's a bed.

[...A confused expression.]

I don't know if I'd want to sleep on it.

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[hands4healing]

[That makes her smile smooth out. Still bittersweet, but more sweet than bitter.]

We're doing our best.

[flamels]

We are. That's all we can do. Here or back home.

[hands4healing]

[Winry nods her agreement.]

And maybe make a difference for someone.

[flamels]

Exactly. You've helped a lot of people. Even moreso here perhaps with the better technology and all.

[hands4healing]

So have you, Ed.

[You don't know how many.]

[flamels]

Me? Nah, not like you have.

[Because of course he himself hasn't had that chance like her to head back to places he's been back home and helped to see the progress, the gratitude the people there have for him. Or even here.]

[hands4healing]

Al told us about Youswell - that's a whole town. And Liore, too! Rose told me everything you did there. You're amazing.

[flamels]

Yousw--oh. Right. That backwater mining town. Yeah, well. I wasn't about to let those third-rates get away with what they were doing. Someone had to stop them.

[hands4healing]

And you stopped them and gave the miners back their lives. Like you did in Liore.

[flamels]

If it wasn't me, someone else would have done something.

[He's never really paid much thought, when that all happened so long ago. Liore is a painful reminder though, how easily the military had stepped in, the troops from Central only adding fuel to the flames in the aftermath of the fighting in Ed's wake of dethroning Father Cornello.]

It was just an assignment. And I went to Liore for my own reasons.

[hands4healing]

It doesn't matter why you went there, you helped people. And you don't know someone else would've helped! A lot of people would just turn their eyes away.

[flamels]

Ah. Maybe. Either way, I figured it. And I guess it worked out....apparently.

[hands4healing]

I may help people one on one but you help a lot of people at once. Even if it doesn't seem like you might be helping at the time.

[That's right, Winry, inflate your boyfriend's ego.]

[flamels]

Even one on one is still something! But really....I figured the main person if any around Liore that I helped would probably be Rose. I guess I never really thought about it much if at all since, besides when I heard about the military there.

[Because like his ego and head aren't big enough already.]

[hands4healing]

Rose complimented you on helping her whole town.

[Yes, she is stoking the ego. But Winry wants Ed to know.]

[flamels]

Yeah? Heard they were rebuilding. That's good. Long as they're moving forward. That's the main thing.

[And it is good to hear. Even if he's not outright saying that.]

[hands4healing]

They're doing well. They're proud of their work.

[She smiles fondly.]

All because you got into trouble there!

[flamels]

I bet they are. It'll probably be way better once they finish! But it's not like I started it. It was that third-rate's fault....

[hands4healing]

And someone had to give him that Stone, too. But you finished his...hold on Liore.

[flamels]

Yeah. The way he talked about making them his army with them believing he could bring them back if they were killed...I wasn't about to let him.

[hands4healing]

No.

[Winry knows why.]

You're a good man, Ed.

[flamels]

I'm--I can try, sometimes.

[hands4healing]

[And sometimes you're very trying, but Winry's not going to tell you that.]

And I appreciate it. And I know Rose and her friends appreciate it.