Ed laughs a bit, though there's a touch of sadness to the noise. "You know, a old war veteran I met said almost the exact same thing to me. He lost his leg in the Ishbalan war, and that was more or less the reason he didn't want to get an automail prosthetic for his leg."

He's quiet for several long moments. "I could tell you the story. What happened to me. The only thing is that, if I do, I want you to tell me something from your past too. Alchemy is about equivalency, that you can't get something for nothing, and that Law is also a personal philosophy of mine."