Ophillia

"I'll save you," Alphonse whispered to the atrocity beside him. The sickening lump of carcass appeared to breath as its form rose and fell. A scent of rotted flesh and corroded metal filled the room. The jagged little stones in Al's hand stung his skin. He held out the pile of jewels to the creature and allowed it to eat from his palm. "It's equal," mumbled the remaining Elric as he watched the beast devour a hundred souls in one lap of its grotesque tongue. Alphonse shivered and fought back the nausea he felt at the contact, "Silly brother, you always eat too fast." The beast responded with a sickening crack of its spine and a scream that

        Edward's hands shook with fear as he clasped then firmly together. His feet stood slightly parted their weight heavy on the ground. The room wreaked of blood and sin. Intricate patterns woven to form a scientific plea lay etched in stone, their forms mocked him from below. Corpses, eyes wretched still with surprise and agony, rested in a pile within the center of the holy markings. The bodies existed now only as fair material in this forbidden trade. The young alchemist took in a deep breath as he pressed his hands to the cold unyielding marble. He watched as the symbols on the ground lit up with a chilled golden fire. Cool, with a

“I called every farm within a hundred miles of here,” Elizabeth’s voice broke through the cloud of sleep that had consumed Rupert’s mind. He tried to roll out of bed but found he saw stuck, standing. He looked down in a panic and saw the thick brown dirt below and felt the wood of the stable door collided with his face. Frantically he scrambled for an explanation before his memories returned of the day before the disbelief of the situation settled on him again. “I can’t believe a horse so beautiful was just running wild. You’re lucky no one else put a claim on him,” came another woman’s s