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[It’s an abnormally quiet household for Edward and Winry today, now that the third member of their family is gone, and while he’d be content to keep his misery to himself in any other situation, this particular little person has made a huge impact in enough lives that it needs to be shared. So...]

Hey, Edward here. For everyone who knew her, Elicia Hughes was sent home.

[Locked to Sheena, Tony, Katniss, and Law]

There was some stuff here left for you, if you want to swing by sometime and pick it up.

[Ed’s going to be hanging around the house for most of the day, though by late afternoon he’ll be going to the Battle Dome to basically destroy everything he can get away with in the simulations until he drags himself home or is otherwise kicked out. In the evening, however, he's actually going to swing by the bar. Not for drinking, necessarily, it just seems like the place to go when you want to wallow.

He's only just finished his second year in Luceti, and this happens? Yeah, this week totally sucks.]

(ooc: wow like a million apologies for the lateness of this. If anyone has ICly acknowledged Elicia going home previously ~~since this is seriously like three weeks late~~ I apologize extra for that, but otherwise we’re assuming this week is a good time for it. RL business for all involved delayed things.)

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She's after me, but I'm not sure how long it's been for her, exactly. It hasn't come up recently.

Long enough for there to have been at least two of me.

[Which feels weird to say, but is apparently the truth. Ugh.]

Yes... I remember that. [She's definitely seen Winry after at least one disappearance.] ... although, I have seen a few people from my world get drawn in and sent back even more times than that, all without memory of this place.

Yeah, so I've heard. I don't remember being here before the last time I showed up. It's pretty screwed up, whatever's toying with our memories like that.

Yes... I'm sure there must be a deeper meaning to it, why some do and others don't, but it's not one we've been able to determine here.

Well it's not like anyone outside the village itself is all that forthcoming with answers.

And then you can't even really be certain of the few answers you do manage to get.

Somehow that just makes it all worse. You never know who or what you can trust.

It makes for a rather frustrating puzzle, knowing you only have part of the story and that it can be turned around any which way. Yet it's always these parts we cling to until something new happens. [She shakes her head.] ... Still, we have more options than we did in the past to learn, so there's that.

Great. Maybe by the time we're all eighty years old we'll finally get the names of some Malnosso interns.

Ha ha. [It's a short, wry laugh.] Well, we do know the name of one former intern at least.

And how helpful as that been?

[He's not entirely up to date, but he can't imagine it being much.]

I haven't spoken to her directly, but she worked for Bil while he was here, taking requests for him and the like. Before that time, she was with the rogue scientists. I believe she might still be doing information exchanges now, within this village, though she tends to be elusive.

Wow, that's helpful. An informant that no one can find.

[He files this information away, though, in case he needs it later. No point in ignoring potentially useful resources.]

She makes announcements, occasionally, when she's willing to show herself to the public. Her name is Molly. [Just in case he wanted that for reference. Though given the sort of day it is, he might not even remember later.]

[That actually sounds vaguely familiar.]

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for her.

You're welcome.

[Presuming that she gathered what she came there for while they were talking at some point.] Oh... the weather's starting to let up a bit. I should probably take advantage of that.

[Edward glances off towards the sky, pursing his lips. Here he'd been feeling so miserable, he'd assumed that it would rain all day and night.]

Yeah... thanks for coming.

It wasn't any trouble.

... Let's talk again, sometime. In better circumstances.

[It takes him a moment, but he nods. He's not great with committing to socializing, but it can't hurt, not really.]

You know where to find me.

Indeed. Take care, Ed.

[And with that, she shifts the items in her arms to make sure she has a good hold on them, before stepping back toward the door.]

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