[Al and Ed are lying in bed together, facing each other]

Ed: Al? Are you asleep?

Al: Huh? What happens, brother? Can't you sleep?

Ed: It's nothing, really, I just want to hear your voice.

Ed: (There isn't that kind of empty echo in your voice, I haven't heard it for such a long time...)

Al: What? Brother, are you talking about your dreams?

Ed: Maybe...

Ed: In fact... I feel like living in a dream now.

Ed: Or perhaps, I don't know if I've been living in a dream all this time.

Al: Huh? A dream?

Ed: It's very strange to say so... Even now, I feel strange...

Ed: This isn't my world... But I don't know why did I come here.

Ed: In the world over there, we tried to resurrect our dead mother with a technique called "Alchemy".

Ed: But we failed. You lost your whole body, and only your soul was fixed to a suit of armor.

Ed: And I lost my arm and leg and replaced them with automail...

Ed: Just like what you see now.

Al: .....

Al: Do you think that "dream" is a nightmare, brother?

Ed: I don't know...

Al: As for me, everything I experience with my brother makes me happy.

Ed: .....!?

Al: As long as my brother is by my side, I won't be afraid. As long as I'm with my brother, no matter what happens, I feel I can face it.

[Al takes Eds left hand]

Al: Brother, do you feel me now?

Ed: Oh... Al?

Al: I'm here. I've been here all the time, brother.

Ed: ... Al...

Al: Good night, brother.

Ed: Yes, good night.

[Everything get's black, Ed thinks]

Ed: (Even though automail can't sense temperatures, I could feel Al's warmth.)

Ed: (The same warmth of my memory, which I was always afraid of forgetting...)

Ed: (This time, I won't let it go away.)

END OF CHAPTER ONE

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