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“well hello ed!” I said “I’m mary!” I got out of Jacobs arms and stood in front of ed”……look at that! I’m just as old as you and just as short!” I started laugh, ed was getting annoyed.
“I’m not short!” he said.
“of course you’re not!” I patted his head, “ we’re both just ‘vertically challenged’!!” the whole crowed started to laugh, including me.
“ well, shall we go to our room mary? So we can talk to ed?” Jacob said getting off the stage to rub the top of my head.
“you’re right Jacob, well ed, if you want to bring anyone else you can, just follow us!” Jacob picked me up and set me on his shoulder.” You don’t have to do this every time Jacob!’
“ I want to!” he said giving me his innocent smile.
“alright.” We started down the hall in the backstage. ”so ed? Who’s the big metal guy?” I asked looking back.
“oh! This is al, my little brother.”
“little? Looks like it should be the other way around! Ha! Just kidding ed! Look at that! We’re here!” Jacob put me down and we went it my room, it was a nice living area and up the stairs was one nice, big, comfy, king sized bed for me and Jacob. “here we are! Make yourselves at home!” I said. ed sat at the buffet table. “oh! Go ahead and eat! I already had dinner!” I said, I looked over at al who was sitting in a wooden chair next to a coffee table. I went over to him and looked into his glowing yellow eyes.”…..good job ed!”
“what?” he said through a mouth full of fries.
“Good job! I have never seen a soul attachment perfectly executed like this!”
“Ah! Brother!” al said as poked his helmet.
“Don’t be such a scardey cat! I’m just looking at ed’s good job.” I said now poking one of the elbows,”so, you’re al huh? Must have been some history for you two to end up like this!” I said now backing away and getting to the couch where Jacob was. “Tell me about it.” Ed and al sat for a second shocked, “come on! Nothing worse than my history!” I cheerfully said. The pause for a second and ed finally spoke.
“Fine, we’ll tell you.” He said. When they finished tell there story ed was tearing. So was I, all I could do was get up and hug Ed, my history was almost the exact same.
“Ed…I’m sorry I made you tell me that.” I said, “I know how you feel, but worse.”
“No you don’t.” he said.
“Yes I do. My history is almost like that except….my sister didn’t make it, I tried to get him back, just like you did with al, but I couldn’t save her……” I couldn’t go on. I was welling tears now. Jacob got up and went over to hug him.
“It’s ok mary. Just go up stairs, it’s been a long day; I’ll talk to ed for you.” Jacob said, I couldn’t speak so I just nodded my head and went up the stairs. I got on the bed but I kept an eye on the floorboards, I heard the conversation but I couldn’t make out who it was.
“Do you know anything about the philosopher’s stone?”
“No”
“Don’t lie!”
“I’m not”
“Damn it! I know your lying! I know you know about the stone!” I saw a flash come through the floorboards. I rushed down the stairs my mind in overdrive of images of Jacob dead on the floor, it was worse. Al’s arms and legs were torn off and Ed has pinned Jacob to the wall over the couch with his metal arm that was trasmutated into a blade.
“ED! WHAT ARE YOU DOING! DON’T HURT HIM!” I yelled, transmuting my own arm into a blade. I ran at ed so fast he had no time to react, I cut his whole metal arm off. Ed fell on the floor, Jacob collapsed on the couch. “why ed? Why did you try to hurt him?”
“he was lying.” He said simply.
“damn it ed, never judge people just by how they look, I thought you learned that already due to the fact that your part robot and al is just an attached soul.” I said.” He knows nothing about the philosopher’s stone, I do however, I can tell you how make it or how to find it, either way you’ll never be happy. “I said grimly staring at the broken boy now lying on the floor looking back at me in terror of what I have become.
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