[Said quickly, because the need to reassure is urgent now that some of that concern from earlier is starting to fall into place. No wonder the Colonel reacted to him like that if he had reason to suspect the Elrics had somehow been unfortunate enough to lose their human bodies for a second time.]
It hasn't been two years for us.
[Ed being a few weeks worth of memories behind Al has been hard enough to reconcile, but at least in that case it still felt like they were coming from basically the same place. Two years, though, and the homunculi dead--that's so far off it's downright alien, and as such doesn't quite sink in the way it should. For all that to be true then Ed and Al would have to... what, go back to Amestris like none of this ever happened and never mention it to anyone? Qri's interference really comes without any lasting consequences?]
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[Said quickly, because the need to reassure is urgent now that some of that concern from earlier is starting to fall into place. No wonder the Colonel reacted to him like that if he had reason to suspect the Elrics had somehow been unfortunate enough to lose their human bodies for a second time.]
It hasn't been two years for us.
[Ed being a few weeks worth of memories behind Al has been hard enough to reconcile, but at least in that case it still felt like they were coming from basically the same place. Two years, though, and the homunculi dead--that's so far off it's downright alien, and as such doesn't quite sink in the way it should. For all that to be true then Ed and Al would have to... what, go back to Amestris like none of this ever happened and never mention it to anyone? Qri's interference really comes without any lasting consequences?]
None of this makes any sense.
[So much for helpful commentary.]