Ed bites his lip. "Not until four years later. After I'd recovered enough to be able to go back to our house... it was gone. Somehow managed to crawl off."

"I took Mustang up on his offer, actually. I came up with this whole plan to get me and Al's bodies back to normal. Get my arm and leg back, and Al's body back. Becoming a State Alchemist was essential to it. We needed access to research material that only State Alchemists can use. But first I needed to have the use of both arms and legs, and Dad had left us some money. I told Aunt Pinako to take however much of it she needed to make me some AutoMail. After some time to recover from the surgery, get used to walking on a new leg, and make sure that I was up to my old combat abilities, Al and I burned down our old house and made our way to Central City."