["You actually felt sympathy? I gotta hand it to you, Ed. You're the biggest idiot I've ever met."

Ed had been expecting something like this. There was a lot of hate attached to the word. Well... maybe if he explained it, that would take his mind off of things. He took another deep breath, exhaling and smiling even wider.]

It's weird how you find these things... [Just smile wider. Explain. It's probably still scared... yeah, that's right. This thing, everything going on here is a misunderstanding. Just try hard. Try harder Don't let what happened last time happen now.]

That was my sister you just sounded like. She's someone who's really important to me. Sh-she killed my parents and stole something important from me back when I was just a baby... then she started using it for herself. What you heard there was from when we were fighting.

I asked her why she was trying to do all this. She told me that she wanted someone to be proud of her--that she felt like her parents never thought she was good enough.

Haha... I promised her that I'd be her friend, but only if she stopped doing all this crazy stuff and set things right. She promised, and she hugged me.

Then she stabbed me in the back, and called me an idiot--but you already heard that, right? Though, if I can ask--why is it always the sad stuff? Why don't you ever show something happy? Like, yeah, this hurt... but after that I got to meet someone awesome. You could show me that instead. Or you could remind me of that time I saved everyone at the Endymion tournament. [Oh hey, yeah, this trying to hold a conversation with a thing that might not even actually exist is actually really helping.

Let's just not think about how crazy I look right now. :'D]