[Ed blinks and looks down in surprise when Greed presses the bottle to his chest, one hand wrapping around the bottle automatically. He's surprised, at first, but it fades when his eyes flicker back up. Ed can read that look easily, without even thinking. It's met with a nod and smile of his own, a silent understanding. Even with the details muddled, they can read between eachother's lines, know what isn't being said.]
[Smaller ones, admittedly. False stones, really, incomplete and unrefined. But they were still Stones, and fueled the homunculii's abilities just the same. Ed snorts as he moves to pour another glass, stepping over to a small table to set the glass down onto.] Oh, hardly. And the old man wasn't really working against us, either, but he didn't help all that much. [Probably out of muddled guilt for past sins, if Edward is honest with himself. Doesn't stop him from being bitter about it, though.] I got the feeling she hadn't ever done it before, the way Envy reacted. Only time I ever saw the bastard scared of something.
[He should be on edge from Greed's posturing, the way he moves around him like a hungry shark closing in on a wounded seal. Any normal person would have found some excuse and fled the room before they were eaten alive, but the thought doesn't even occur to Ed. It's shady and threatening, sure, but he doesn't feel trapped. The wings stretching around him, the pulsing so-faint glow and smell of burning, it just earns an easy grin as he watches Greed's constant flow of movement. For all the oddities, it's not that hard to understand what Greed is about.] Seems like that's the theme with us, huh? Just similar enough we can get the idea, but the rest... [He makes a vague gesture as he pours out another serving, golden liquid spilling and swirling around itself.]
[The offer makes him pause, glance over to Greed with a contemplative look. Certainly he'd come into the Nest with the idea of signing on, but actually going through with it...that was another story. He knew what it meant for him, the kind of road he would be going down. Greed is good people, but he isn't nice by any stretch of the imagination. Ed isn't stupid, though--he'd be safe here, especially once the changes he's been dreading start setting in. And he knows Greed--moreover, Greed knows Edward. He knows the world he's from, and that is something that Ed has been starved for the past year and a half.] I was thinking about it. You sure you won't regret taking me on?
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[Smaller ones, admittedly. False stones, really, incomplete and unrefined. But they were still Stones, and fueled the homunculii's abilities just the same. Ed snorts as he moves to pour another glass, stepping over to a small table to set the glass down onto.] Oh, hardly. And the old man wasn't really working against us, either, but he didn't help all that much. [Probably out of muddled guilt for past sins, if Edward is honest with himself. Doesn't stop him from being bitter about it, though.] I got the feeling she hadn't ever done it before, the way Envy reacted. Only time I ever saw the bastard scared of something.
[He should be on edge from Greed's posturing, the way he moves around him like a hungry shark closing in on a wounded seal. Any normal person would have found some excuse and fled the room before they were eaten alive, but the thought doesn't even occur to Ed. It's shady and threatening, sure, but he doesn't feel trapped. The wings stretching around him, the pulsing so-faint glow and smell of burning, it just earns an easy grin as he watches Greed's constant flow of movement. For all the oddities, it's not that hard to understand what Greed is about.] Seems like that's the theme with us, huh? Just similar enough we can get the idea, but the rest... [He makes a vague gesture as he pours out another serving, golden liquid spilling and swirling around itself.]
[The offer makes him pause, glance over to Greed with a contemplative look. Certainly he'd come into the Nest with the idea of signing on, but actually going through with it...that was another story. He knew what it meant for him, the kind of road he would be going down. Greed is good people, but he isn't nice by any stretch of the imagination. Ed isn't stupid, though--he'd be safe here, especially once the changes he's been dreading start setting in. And he knows Greed--moreover, Greed knows Edward. He knows the world he's from, and that is something that Ed has been starved for the past year and a half.] I was thinking about it. You sure you won't regret taking me on?