makeitquick | 4th Dusting

Right, if you say so. So you got freaks of chem, anything else?

Homunculi. Artificial people with weird powers. I've only ever met two of them in person, but I was told there are more.

[She's not really sure if she should be saying this publicly, but... none of them are here.]

Artifi- you mean people made a person? Also with your Al-chem?

Maybe? I don't know their origins, but they aren't friendly. [Even the "good" one, Greed, was a little less than friendly.]

...So, weird powers?

One I met could turn his skin into a hardened carbon based shield.

That's convenient.

Not if you're on his bad side.

That's the way a lotta abilities are. Can't imagine demons're fond of my skills.

No, probably not.

So why would those sorta things be around?

I'm not really informed. I only know because my friend is in the thick of it, and he's not much of a talker.

Fair 'nuff.

So the typical person doesn't run into 'em.

No, not really.

Well that's good, at least.

Though they are everyone's problem. Back home they're trying to do something big and bad that involves destroying the whole country.

Wow. [A beat. It reminds her of Harth] People ready to fight back for it?

Yeah, before I came here my two best friends and a couple of their comrades left to go stop it.

[Meaning she stayed behind. See? Not info-girl or fighter-girl. She knows she has her part to play in the scheme of things, but... waiting is still tough.]

Oh. That's good. [What the hell is a small team like that going to do against a threat to a country, she can't help but think. But she isn't good to question it]

And I think their father was going to help too? Anyway, unless you count mad alchemists I think that's all we have that is close to what you were asking for.

Huh. ...Alchem's pretty important where you're from, isn't it?

It's a large and popular field of science.

If it can do stuff like make fake people I can see why.

Some people think it can be used to bring back the dead. That - that's a lie, though.

...Not surprising. Pretty hard to do that.

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