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[...So it's been a week. A full week since his parents had shown up in Luceti. And as of today, with the last bit of furniture in place, he and Al are officially "moved in". At least, in the sense of physically living there. Edward still finds himself looking out the window an awful lot and double-taking at the house number across the street, and at least three times now he's turned to approach the door of the Hughes' household instead of his own. He hasn't barged in unintentionally yet, at least. That would have been awfully embarrassing.

He's still not sure how he feels about this... home life. Thing. Adjustment is one thing, but actually coming to expect his mother's smiling face when he walks through the front door? It's a little scary. Wonderful in a lot of ways, but...

And that's not even getting into the issue of living so close to Hohenheim for this long, something he hasn't done since early childhood. And despite promising to give the man a chance, their relationship is tenuous at best, violent at its worst. He's still not calling the man "father", either. And there's poor Al in the middle, still stuck in his wheelchair... dammit...

Well, let's just say he's in desperate need of some distraction. So after giving it some thought, he turns to the journal-]

Hey, got a question for anyone listening out there-

I was talking to this kid a while back - Aoba - and something came up. Do we have some kind of directory of all the worlds people are from? I don't mean that world sharing class, I mean actual maps of all the different worlds, or countries within those worlds, or whatever.

Because if there isn't, then I'd like to make one. So if you wanna get involved, talk about where you're from here- show a map, gimme an idea of what it's like. I'll take what I can get.

[A little while later, he'll be venturing to his usual hotspots- the library, for some books for poor Al to read, and the Battle Dome, to take out some of his pent-up frustrations (and to duke it out with a few of the homunculus for kicks), then to the shops for a bit of perusing. He can be pestered around down at any time, looking uncharacteristically unsure, though he's been looking that way all week, so at this point it may not be anything new.

Eventually he'll return home to his family some time before dinner, carrying with him (in addition to Al's books) a toolbox, a bag containing some clothes, and a collection of sticky buns for dessert/snacking-

...but not before barging into the Hughes house accidentally. Apparently there really is a first time for everything.]

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Then you're hearing about some crappy places if the whole world is invalid.

Hey, I don't make it up, I just write down what I'm told about. Some people come from some strange places.

Strange is one thing, crappy's another - something doesn't need to be a dangerous seedy place to be interesting.

I didn't say they weren't interesting- just that they wouldn't be much good for a picnic.

Well... I'd still want to see a lot of them. Probably.

You want to explore other worlds?

[Actually when you get right down to it he really doesn't know much about Haruhi.]

Who wouldn't?

Some people just want to get back home, I think. [Like him. As awesome as exploring would be, there are certain priorities.]

That's beside the point - and assuming both are mutually exclusive.

Could be a dangerous can of worms to open if that kind of thinking is what started up people being brought here in the first place.

[Though it would be awfully useful (and cool) to be able to travel between worlds at will. There's so much potential- especially with his mother still here, alive and well.]

Do you believe that?

[ ... ]

[Normally, he'd say no immediately- he's become such an explorer by nature, restless and unable to resist the urge to be always on the move. There's no helping it. But after hearing about his and Al's alternate selves... well, he's grown a little wary of wandering too far from home.]

I don't know. We're not given enough information. But I do know one thing- I wouldn't want to let my desire to explore get me trapped on another world, like we're trapped on this one. There's still plenty of exploring that I can do on my own world before I give serious thought to visiting the others.

[The thought of traveling between worlds- it's fascinating, and so very tempting. But at the same time, he can't forget the fact that he'd been told that he and Al had, in that alternate universe, been stuck on Earth. Together, yes, but away from Winry, and all of their friends, and Amestris itself. Away from home.

He hates the very idea of repeating that mistake.]

...Good for you.

[Not that she can't understand it. But still, what is this supposed to be? He's taking an interesting and then backpedaling like that. Ans she frowns, but then sighs. No, there's no point]

In any case, I have my doubts any desire like that caused this. I have my doubts any person caused this.

[Wow, rude. No wonder they don't usually get along.]

Any theories on what caused it, then?

[Better than arguing about something unrelated, anyway.]

A singularity.

Singularity? [There's a word you don't see cropping up in every day conversation.]

Yeah, a singularity. Are you familiar with the concept?

Not really. I know what it means, but in context it doesn't make any sense.

[Or rather he has the very primitive meaning of it. The one that doesn't involve space, time, and black holes.]

How doesn't it? Everyone and every thing is pulled in from everywhere else to exist at one point. Basically, the assumption would be that this world is a point at which mass or gravity or both become infinite and space and time bend in to be sucked up towards it. You know, like a black hole, entropy, all that stuff! The point is, this is a singularity which is able to reach across time, dimensional variances, universes, everything. The singularity. Now, whether this is natural or not is debatable, but I think it's far more likely that some "force" or "energy" of this world is what causes everyone to show up, not any individual or group of individuals.

[...Wow. That is totally more than he's ever heard about space that isn't visual-only. The concept of other worlds and space beyond the stars isn't unusual, especially here, but all that? ...Yeah, wow.]

...You sure you're not just making this up as you go along?

[HE'S JUST CHECKING. It sounds like something out of one of Al's science fiction novels, a genre Ed hadn't even known had existed until recently.]

Of course not! What do you take me for, jeez.

I was just asking, you don't have to get mad.

[A girl who likes weird stuff like that, maybe. He shrugs, though, giving it a bit of thought now.]

We don't have much on space in Amestris. I might have to do some reading.

Oh yeah... fair enough. Might want to look into pan-dimensional theory too.

Pan-dimensional...?

[Crikey this otherworldly science likes strange names.]

I'll remember that, then...

Cool! And... maybe String Theory.

Oh, and read Brave New World.

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