Families are like fudge

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Characters: Alphonse Elric (its_a_hobby), Edward Elric (steelmade) and Winry Rockbell (endthiscycle)
Location: Around the town
Rating: G?
Time: Aug 10 after BREW viewing.
Description: The Golden trio hangs out together, at long last. Who knows might go down with these three.

For so long, one of the things that had bothered Winry the most was the fact that everyone was assuming BREW actually existed. Up until now no one had ever even seen it, so the existence of this so called wish-granting machine had been one she always doubted.

Now that it was finally unveiled, she didn't know how to feel. At first she had been incredibly disappointed and unimpressed. It looked a little like a jigsaw puzzle. Then when Spirit proved its durability she got that usual tingle. That great and inexplicable desire to take it apart, find out how it ticks, learn about its ins and outs. Sadly that was not an option for her since it could not e removed from the room and with a despondant sigh she drew away from the machine.

She was going to head back to her room in the Casualty Communal when she spotted Edward and Alphonse, and instead hurried over to them.

"Hey guys," her eyes went back to where others were lining up to take a look at the machine, "so what do you guys think?"

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Even though Al hadn't honestly expected much to come from Shibusen's offer, he still couldn't help feeling disappointed that he was leaving the BREW viewing with little more information than he'd had going into it. The staff had provided more detail this time, but ultimately, the answers were the same as the ones he'd been hearing since he arrived here--that BREW was a "wish-granting" machine of mysterious origin that no one could quite figure out.

He'd learned to accept a lot of strange things over the past few months, but there was something fundamentally troubling about such a hopeless explanation. And really, what did showing them an unbreakable cube actually prove?

At the sound of Winry's voice, Al's mood brightened. For her sake he'd try to seem a bit more optimistic.

"Well, it isn't what any of us expected." He glanced over his shoulder, giving BREW one last look. It was probably best for them to get out of there before Ed seriously hurt himself trying to smash it. "But even though I'm still not sure if Shibusen is being honest with us, I'm glad we finally got a chance to see it for ourselves."

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"For all the good that does," Ed added in a grumble, glancing at BREW as well.

He'd been more angry with the people of Shibusen than BREW till now, but, seeing it in person, he could understand a bit better why the natives kept talking about it as though it had a will of its own. A box being sentient like that is impossible, of course, but...well, there was definitely something up with the damn thing.

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"Well it at least lets us know the thing actually exists for one. At least that's a step somewhere." Whether it was in the right direction or not, Winry's wasn't sure. It still didn't make her trust Shibusen, but seeing this tidbit of truth made it just that tiny bit more possible they were being honest about the BREW issue at least. Unfortunately if that was the case then it seemed they really were stuck here until the war was over and who knew how long that would take. Seeing how things had progressed so far it was looking like they could be here for years.

"Man but I do wish they could at least have given me a closer look at it. The whole 'wish-granting' thing still makes me a little unsure." Forget the fact she had seen people transforming into weapons before her eyes. Winry was sure that there was still a way to explain that. She just. Had yet to find it.

A small sigh and then she placed her hands on her hips "So are you guys doing anything else in particular today?"

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"Maybe they'd be willing to let you take a look at it privately some other time," Al said. He didn't trust Shibusen, but he wasn't so stubborn as to refuse to admit they were making more of an effort to win the newcomers over. Al was simultaneously grateful and wary; it was still too soon to tell how all this would play out.

For now, though, he was glad for the opportunity to spend some time with Winry and his brother. Ed hadn't been in the city long enough for the three of them to have had the chance to do much more than catch up. "We don't have any plans that can't wait. Are you in any hurry to get back to the Communal?"

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Ed wasn't in the least bit surprised that Winry wanted to 'look' at it. He wasn't really sure how well Shibusen would take to its weapon being taken to pieces. Not that Ed cared, of course - he'd be happy to see the damn thing broken, if it weren't for the fact that they were supposedly dependent on it to get back home. On the other hand, if there was anyone who could figure out how it worked, it was Winry.

He shook his head in tandem with Al's response. "You want to do something?"

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Winry gave a thoughtful hum. She would see about that then, perhaps if she studied it under their supervision they would allow her to play around with it a bit. If BREWs code could be broken, perhaps that would be one way to get home. She knew it wasn't going to be easy, after all they were following different laws here, but it was definitely worth looking into.

"I had nothing in mind but when was the last time we were able to just spend some time together? I'm sure there's something in the city we could do!" For all its weirdness, Death City did have a couple things that seemed like they could be pretty fun.