Saya-san, I'm ready to do my best! If you'll still have me. I apologize for being so absent these day. I'll overcompensate with...with...I don't know, you're the boss, you can find something, yeah? Just please give me a shot to do something again. I really liked helping you with the place, a few weeks ago, and I'd love to work there. Really.

[filtered to Envy D:]

Your bribe parfaits are done. They were supposed to have been done earlier, but...all these curses, and. Oh well. They're done, anyway. I'll have someone deliver them, yes? ^_^

[filtered to allies/friends]

I need to do something entertaining, something that'll take my mind off of...this month in general. ANYTHING. Who's up for it?

[ooc; Damned college is taking me away from Poly, it's not FAIR. I'm back, and Winry's back. She'd been in the curses, but never posted about them, because of...well, whatever works as an excuse. SORRY, PEOPLE.]

[private; unhackable]

...this place is so lonely, now. Lonely and cold...

I want them back, I want to go back, even if it's to Briggs, just take me back, I want to make sure they're safe, and that they're okay, and...and...

I miss them both so much. It's just me now. Not even grandma to keep me company. Not even a pet. Just Winry. Alfons doesn't talk much anyway...not since...well, we seem to be on tricky terms, anyway. And...and now the house is empty, and the only people I know is miss Riza. And the Colonel, too. The two Greeds seem nice, but they're enemies, and Envy...I'd rather not think about it...

What do I do now? I guess...I guess there's only one thing left. I live on, just like I did when they left before. So lonely, so lonely...

[/private]

THANK GOD I HAVE MY WRENCH BACK NOW! Technology! Hot water! Oh, I didn't know how much I loved you until I stopped having you! Funny, sometimes this happens. You don't miss a thing till you stop having it...

...Alfons...can we be friends again?

[ooc; SO SCHOOL IS TOTALLY NOT KILLING ME, NO WAY. But it totally is. Anyway, I just found out today (HOW LAME IS THAT?) that both Elrics are gone! this means that all these weeks of Winry not writing anything in her journal were due to depression, or coming to terms with loneliness. Plot No Jutsu, what? So save her before she cracks.]

...someone tell me I'm not the only one in this place being followed by a horde of citizens wielding fired torches. People! Seriously, I'm not a witch! Witches are fairytale material in my world!

I might build automail and be unlady-like but that doesn't make me a witch, DOES IT? I wish they'll stop dunking me under water! Or tickle my toes. Lucky me, they're not ticklish, but you know what I mean, right? Is there a safe place in this City? As in...away from the hordes?

Also: STOP CALLING MY AUTOMAIL WITCHCRAFT!! IT'S ART! MASTERPIECES, I TELL YOU! NOT MAGIC!

[ooc; *continues reviving her muses, la la la, go away college*]

I don't like these curses the City throws these days. What about a candy curse? Or an apple pie curse? Or a...well, blah. Whatever curse. Seriously! All these curses are bringing my business down.

Does no-one want an automail these days?!
Course not, if you have the choice between a metal hand and a flesh hand, you'd pick the other. Ah, mister Archer, see how you turned out to be competition? No hard feelings~! Watch your back, jerk.

[private; hackable to Al]

...I wonder if this time, it's for good. I miss my Ed my world's Ed him...

[private; unhackable]

...another curse which gives me nightmares. I wonder if I'm a magnet to these tortures...Is this what he felt...? Is it some sort of karmic payback? I'll have to stop scolding him so much when he returns for breaking his automail. I know he probably appreciates it...
Not having my hands was...

[ooc; Belated, but. Winry's recovering from her brush with the Razorbox Trap, three days ago. She's been kissing her hands a lot lately. Nothing like having your human hands being cut off to appreciate the pain Ed goes through. Yeah.]

[private to Al]

Miss Hawkeye has told me that a homunculus named Envy, from your world, is here. He's been asking about you. Please don't get yourself into trouble, okay? For me...

[private; unhackable]

I miss him. I know I've seen him recently, before he left the City, but...I can't stop missing and worrying about Ed. Did he get away from Kimblee? Is he okay? Is everyone at Briggs still okay? Did he end up being forced to destroy it...

I wish I had a way of knowing...

[private to Riza]

I'd like to thank you for the training. I'm finding it very helpful! If you'd like, I can offer you the same I offered Ran Fan in exchange...?

[/Private]

Leeloo chämas~! How are you doing? Is like at the bakery going well? Thank you for the visit the other day. I like your language. ♥ I'd like to express my gratitude, so I have baked you my famous Winry apple pie!

Well, I'm glad most of the women here have calmed down. There's no need to hate boys, you know? Or men. Sure, they're most of the time inmature idiots who don't know when to stop jumping in the face of danger, and they never cook, or help around the house, but hey!...at least they entertain us when they're stupid.

On that line, all this seeing information about other worlds has made me mournful.

[Private/hackable to allies]

How can I not miss my home, if everyone here is leaving? First Ed, and now Alfons is gone, too. Al needs to get out of his sad funk before he drags me into it, too...wait. Too late for that. Even Ran Fan is gone...we never even got to train all that much. Now how will I learn to defend myself? How...uhghh. Nevermind. I guess I'm just having an off day.

Back to work it is!

[Filtered to the military people of FMA--basically Riza and Roy...]

Have I mentioned I can also clean and repair guns? Anything metal works, really.

[ooc; SHE JUST WISHES PEOPLE WILL STOP LEAVING HER, OKAY? She's spent half her life alone with her grandma, anyway, this isn't making it any easier! Alone with Al. Are you feeling the emo coming up?]

Ed's gone. But Alfons was right about something. If he's Ed, then he'll act like Ed. And Ed always returns, even if it's for a day, a month, or a switch of automail. So I refuse to let anyone in this house angst over the fact that Ed's gone.

I'm sure that where he is, he's okay. If he's from Al's world, and Al's a human again, then it means that good things have happened in that world. And that maybe, at least, he's not in danger of dying like the one in my world. So there's no need to worry about that at least!

AND, like Alfons said, he'll return. He won't leave you here alone, Al, so you don't have to be sad. Just patient. If you've been patient all your life, you get used to it. I got used to it.

SO. From now on, I declare the Elric/Heiderich/Rockbell house an Angst FREE zone. We're going to work at the shop, then we're going to make dinner, I'll bake a cake, and we'll have talks. And we won't be angsty. GOOD?

[ooc; Winry has had it with the drama. PH3AR.]

After much preparation, struggle, and avoiding-curses-ry, it's finally done.

The first Rockbell Automail Shop opens in City, today! If you need any type of prosthetic arm, or such, this is the place to come to! I assure you, you'll be treated with utmost professionality, and secrecy if you so want it, and the prices are really cheap! I Rockbell Shop has an added bonus of mechanical repair: Have a robot arm that's squeaking unpleasantly? Your Gundam is a bit rusty? This is--again!--the place to come to! Step inside and observe, if you want. Watching is for free. Stealing will be punished. Heavily.

[Private; hackable to friends]

Oh, grandma, I hope you'll be proud of me. I can't do it without you, but you always told me there would come a day when I would find myself in need of getting around with my own resources. My automail isn't as great, as masterful as yours, grandma, but it will be. I promise you, I'll do it well. I'll make you proud of your niece, a girl who can overcome her inner-drama and stand tall against the tide. I have a job to do. I wonder if my parents would be proud of what I've become...


`[ooc; Not much to say, except that she's opened her shop very near where she lives with the blond triplets (Alfons, Ed, Al). It's a tiny building, shaped like a house, with simple letters announcing Rockbell Automail Shop in gold. The inside is clean, and full of shiny new automail pieces, because she's been building like mad. Losing sleep and all. And in the back, there's a room where Winry works her magic. On the metal. Unf.]

[voice post]

--ecause I'm starting to free--OH!

...call this deja vu, but...Winry, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore...

The City, huh? Well...hello, again...

[ooc; And Winry is also back! Appeared while in the freezing cold tunnel in chapter 73 of the manga. *cue escaping soundtracks* She's, of course, attired for freezing weather, again. Oh, and she remembers everything. Yeah. Especially the THE MAN I LOVE IS ACTUALLY GAY WITH AL'S CLONE FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION...parts. Haha. *is such a cheerful girl*]

[voice post]

[shuffling noises, of a person shifting in her sleep]

...what...?
...snow?
........Briggs...!!

[utter silence]

[ooc; As with Yuffie, Winry's also being pulled into her world. So she was sleeping, and dreaming of the place where she was at--Briggs fortress--and a moment later, fwip! She's gone. APOLOGIES TO AL, AND ANYONE ELSE WHO SHE'LL WORRY WITH THIS! You'll be getting her back in 2-3 weeks. ^.~V Toodles!]