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_{[GOOD MORNING, JOHTO!]

[THERE'S A PICTURE IN YOUR INBOX.]}

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if u hav seen them mesg rath pls

thank

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_{[Are you in Goldenrod City or its surrounding territories?]

[Then YOU JUST MIGHT HAVE THE LUCK to be approached by a small child in increasingly-grubby conditions as the day goes on. You'd think he'd have learned his lesson about approaching strangers by this point, but if he has, it's not stopping him.]

[He will approach anyone and everyone who stops long enough to make eye contact, but instead of challenging you to a Pokemon battle, he will instead thrust the image above, finger-painted on a scrap of filthy paper rather than a crappy .jpg at you. He's still got paint on his fingers. Maybe his beseeching puppydog-blue eyes (the most pitiful ones he can MANAGE) will outweigh the unintentionally-horrifying nature of the three portraits.]

[8( WELL?]

[HAVE YOU SEEN THEM?]}

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[Allfonz? Oh, the one who helped him read her old responses. Gred and Scar she can't make heads or tails of.]

I don't think I have. Where did you last see them? Maybe a location will help narrow down where they might be?

that dos not cownt!! it waz 2 ezy

bcoming a hyuman is hard not evn the best allkemists bak in amestrs cud do it

and if u lov potaytos so much then u can hav them i dont want any

_{[There's more to being human than just having a heartbeat, needing to eat and sleep, and being functionally alive. Because none of that is particularly spectacular but it's also the only thing that's discernably different from how everything felt to Wrath back home! SURELY there has to be more to the thing he was desperately striving towards than this.]

[But also the joke's on him, he loves french fries and has no idea they have anything to do with the lumpy brown "organic rocks" that he has constantly scorned since arriving.]}

aneway i saw them a long tym ago lyk 5 days at lest

but i saw gred sooner than the others

he is the 1 whos eys r purpl

I don't know.

[Envy's hands clench some as he says it. It's the truth. He doesn't know, nobody knows what makes people suddenly vanish away, and that's what makes it so damn difficult.]

But that's what happens. Sometimes people who vanish get brought back, but a lot of the time they don't.

You know when people are gone like that if you call their 'Gear and it says there's an error instead of them just not answering...I can show you.

[Maybe that will make it seem more solid, more real.]

WELL, I CAN'T SAY I'VE SEEN ANYONE LIKE THAT AROUND. BUT, I'M SURE HE'LL SEE YOUR DRAWING!

whoa dude ok i get it
please locate your nearest chill dispenser and pop a few dozen before you blow a blood vessel or something
no identity theft for dave we have all learned a lesson today

_{[Wrath may or may not be the worst-spelling assassin in existence.]}

wel

my tem mate LUST was on a mishin with me but it turnd owt she was a traytor and she stabd me in the hed at which poynt i dyed

then i woke up heer

now i hav a difrent job!

but its a sekrit i cant tel u that 1

the last tym i saw them it was at the hows they liv in

but they r not ther

they hav not ben ther 4 a long tym

i hav luked all over the sity

i am tyred

_{[He'll watch as he's shown, but it's obvious that his mind is diligently tunneling its way to a conclusion with this new not-so-new but now CONFIRMED information.]}

--Does this mean I might go back?

Back to Amestris?

i hop so

I DONT KNO WAT A CHIL DISPNSDR IS

_{[He may or may not have turned on the capslock and not actually know how to turn it back off.]}

HOW DO I KNO IF THER IS 1 NEAREST TO ME

HAVE FAITH!

[Envy hesitates. But he can't lie, and he'd started this.]

[He just hadn't expected that Wrath didn't already know, and that he'd have to explain it to him for the first time. He's so used to it being a fact of life here that anyone could go home that he'd just assumed that it was something that people knew. But he's going to see this to the end.]

...it does. Anyone can go back.

But that doesn't mean you will. I've been here almost since people started showing up. And Heather, she's been here even longer, since the very beginning.

[what D:]

are you a zombie??

I hear ya loud'n clear, kiddo. Wanna swing by the hotdog place? I could suddenly go for a chili dog.

Which city is your home in?

You won't be able to find them if you're so exhausted you can't walk. Do you have anyone else looking with you? Or any Pokemon that can carry you? I won't tell you to stop looking, but you should get some rest too.

_{[Envy's doing the best anybody can, but unfortunately there's one nasty truth that no amount of gentle reasoning can waft away, and the fact that it's only a possibility doesn't matter to a child.]

[Wrath lifts his hands to clutch at the sides of his head, paint-fingers and all.]}

Back to Master.

I'll be going back to Master.

_{[All their words about their iron-fisted puppeteer having no power in this place may be true but they're meaningless if there was a possibility that they'd fall right back into her clutches on her own home turf.]}

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[Envy swallows hard, words sticking in his throat. He's never wanted to lie to Wrath more than in this very moment.]

[Because he knows exactly what the young homunculus is going back to. He knows that he himself is going to contribute just as much pain and cruelty as their master is, and that there's nothing he can do to stop it. He's past that point in the timeline, even if he was able to go back and remember and change things.]

[There's nothing he can say to take the truth away.]

[So he doesn't say anything. Instead, he reaches out and pulls Wrath into a tight hug, something he's never, ever done before, and holds onto him like he's trying to hold him into this world right now.]

no i am a homunculus

wat is

a zom b?? ???

That sounds good. I like hot dogs. I didn't know they had chilly dogs, too. Are they as good as the hot ones?

the yello 1

goldn rod

i hav mama she is my first pokymon i am ryding her sholders

she is slo but vere strong

[Oh no he calls his Pokémon Mama??? Oh no she doesn't even have maternal instincts a lot of the time but she wants to make sure this kid is okay]

I'm in Azalea right now but I'll look around here. And when I get to Goldenrod I'll check in with you alright? I want to help find your friends.

homunculus????

[That's even more terrifying than a zombie, granted the first image of a homunculus that pops into Yachi's head is the cortical homunculus and probably-- HOPEFULLY!!-- not what he means. How does he know what a homunculus is but not a zombie?]

A zombie is a person who's died and come back to life. What do you mean by homunculus??

_{[It's a testament to how far they've come that Wrath doesn't struggle when he's yanked into the embrace, even if it's nothing short of one of the most surprising things Envy has done to date. Physical contact with Envy back home was limited to punches and kicks, sometimes deserved but usually not.]

[Things are different here, that's for sure.]

[But the undeniable fact that all that difference could be meaningless in a heartbeat is paralyzing.]

[Wrath's bony little raccoon hands clamp down on the arms around him and cling so hard it's almost certainly painful.]}

_{[HE SURE DOES.]}

i hav not ben to that 1 but mayb they r ther

thank u

u r vere helpfull

_{[There's a long pause, during which he may or may not have gasped out loud.]}

O!!!

i gess i am a ZOM B to then!!!!

_{[Lust and Envy are gonna be SO surprised to hear that there's another word for what they all are!!!]}

a homunculus is wat hapens when an alchemyst trys 2 bring a ded hyuman being back 2 lyf

insted of the hyuman they get a homunculus which is a damned being frum hell

usually that is not what they wanted!!! but they just keep doin it aneways

alchemysts r stupid

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text; OH GOOD LORD i hadn't looked at a pic of that thing in years and forgot how creepy it was