video } crash sites keep me up at night impact division it splits in two

[transmutate]

[There's a teenage boy staring at the camera for just a fraction too long before he starts to speak. Ed's a smart kid, and while he doesn't have any kind of phone remotely like this back home, he figured out how to use it pretty quickly. Still, he's done a lot more listening and watching and reading than actually communicating with other people through it. He wants to make sure he understands it fully before he uses it.

But he's ready now. Once he's satisfied that it's recording, he nods, then sits back.]

Hi. I'm Edward Elric. I'm an Alchemist. But from what I've heard, that doesn't mean anything to most of you. But even if you don't have alchemy, you do have science, right? What do the scientists of your worlds study?

[There, question posed successfully. He's mastered this fascinating device. He turns it off, and waits for people to reply.]

Comments

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[transmutate]

You'd have to have a lot of speed to get far enough away that people won't be able to ask after you and stay on your tail.

[A beat.]

Metaphorical tail, I mean.

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[beatupgrass]

For your information, kid, I've only been caught twenty three times. And I escaped each and every d'ast time.

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[transmutate]

Twenty three is only? How many times is that out of?

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[beatupgrass]

I dunno. Hundreds probably.

[possibly an exaggeration....]

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[transmutate]

Twenty-three percent is still a lot more getting caught than I'd want to brag about.

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[beatupgrass]

Escapin' from twenty-three maximum security prisons sure is though. Who cares if I get caught? I busted out within a day. That's badass.

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[transmutate]

Or that maximum security isn't as impressive where you're from as it should be.

[beatupgrass]

Dude. You ain't even seen the Kyln. Get off my tail here.

[transmutate]

Did you go to the same place every time? That's especially sloppy of them.

[beatupgrass]

They were all different prisons, smartass. The Kyln's just the worst of the worst. Took me all of a day for me and my buddies to bust out of it too.