Not so surprising, for I find myself thinking back on it with a certain amount of positive regard. I hadn't expected to, yet in the end, it wasn't as trying as it might have been.
'So much easier to meet people for— for that in Ukiyo. [ c-cough ] 'S-sides... might just... see how things go with Al 'fore I think about meeting someone else.
If you would, it'd give me a free pass to have a rather long life, myself. I don't think Hughes would approve much of me letting you die before me, complete lack of contact, interdimensional barriers and the like be damned.
[ There's something to his smile that suggests that he knows exactly what he's doing. After all, flustering Ed never gets old. ]
Not only in Ukiyo, Edward Elric.
[ He nods agreeably enough nonetheless. ]
But perhaps your willingness to wait is sound. After all, there are opportunities in these other worlds never afforded to us in Ukiyo. And those bonds you forge elsewhere may be the stronger for it.
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