You're too harsh, Al would have said. Ed frowned as he cracked an eye open and watched the others fumbling and a part of him felt bad. Just a little bit. Al would have been right. The other man had done a lot for them -- a lot of things that probably could have cost him his job, not to mention letting them get away with things like using the military as a tool to find more about the philosophers stone.... Which had also been Mustangs' idea.

He was, in a million ways, grateful that the man had even found them and been part of their fucked up journey.

"I don't know how to describe any of that in letters. Xing was great, though it's like a different world in comparison to Amestris," He uncrossed his arms to use his hands as he talked. He watched the other put his shoes on and he narrowed his eyes.

Oh, hell, no.

"You're telling me, you're going to practically stalk me and march right up into one of my seminars, interupt it --" He was exhagerating, as Ed did, because Ed was the one who interupted his own class, really "-- hang out down here for an hour and now just leave?!" He rolled his eyes.

God, he wanted to beat the other into the gr--

There was that mischevious twinkle in Ed's eyes.

"If you want to 'catch up', then there's a large park by Gracia and Elysias place. After dark."

He could use the exercise.