Post by naokoelric2250 on Oct 23, 2010 17:19:17 GMT -5
It was getting colder and colder as the train travelled closer and closer to the mountains of Briggs. Due to this, Roberta and Mary had changed their clothes to reflect this. Roberta had supposedly managed to track down another Homunculus and therefore, another Philosopher's Stone to attempt to destroy.
Mary had swapped her white ankle socks for warm black tights, and her light brown shoes for more sturdy, brown ankle boots. She had added a cardigan under her coat and a an earth green scarf around her neck. Roberta had swapped her shorts and tights for dark-grey trousers and white ankle socks and swapped her waistcoat for a nice, midnight-blue sweater. She had buttoned up her coat, adding a scarf and a bobble hat and swapping her normal shoes for Doc Martens. Both females were wearing gloves.
The girl had been reading a new book the whole journey, preventing Mary from asking the one question she had wanted to ask since leaved Roberta with Fiare Torrent in Central those few days ago.
Finally they reached the station.
“It is so…deserted,” Roberta said as they disembarked from the train and looked around, trying to get used to the cold.
“Well, not many like it up here,” Mary said, then replaced her apprentice’s latest book, which she had bought in Central, back in her suitcase, closed it, picking it up and began walking, the girl next to her. Finally she would be able to ask the question she had wanted to ask. But she would ease into it.
“Roberta, did I ever tell you I was born here?” the alchemy teacher asked the girl as they made their way through the snow, their eyes sharp and looking for anything suspicious.
“You were born here?!” the girl replied, her voice raising at the end of the sentence. “How in the world did you and your family survive? It is a complete and utter wilderness out here!”
“Well, that’s why, shortly after I was born, my mother and father moved to Dublith. That’s were Michael was born. When I told him we had moved there from Briggs, he refused to believe until my mother told him otherwise,” the woman paused to laugh. “I’m glad we moved, because if we didn’t, I would have never met you, Roberta.”
“No, you would not. If I had not met you, goodness knows what I would have done.”
Mary could tell what the girl was hinting and decided to change the subject. “Anyway, Roberta. I have been meaning to ask you something.
"Yes?"
"Did anything happen that night I left you alone?”
Roberta stopped. What should I say? I cannot tell her about that Envy Homunculus and my second almost-death, or she will never let my leave her supervision again.
“Roberta?” Mary said, stopping walking and leaning down to peer at the girl’s expression, which was distance with thought.
“Oh!” the girl said, her eyes suddenly becoming focused again. “I am sorry, Sensei.”
“Do you have an answer to my question?”
“Yes. Miss Fiare and I explored intently for a good while, but found nothing, so Miss Fiare escorted me to the hotel. I did not wish to wake you, so I simply took a late-night bath, changed into my pyjamas and retired for the night.”
“Then how…” she grabbed the girl’s wrists and exposed it. “Did you get these?"
The bespectacled teenager gulped. The woman was looking at the scars on her wrists.
“I did wake up, Roberta, and saw you had come back. Despite being asleep, you looked restless. I had a closer look at you, then I saw the marks and that looked you looked shook up.”
The girl had nothing to reply.
“Something did happen that night.”
“I…I fell and grazed myself, nothing more,” Roberta quickly said, getting nervous. “look! Are those tracks?”
Luckily for the young alchemist, there was indeed tracks resembling those of humans, and she set off to follow them. Mary sighed. I’ll just have to ask later.She set off as well, following her apprentice.
((Yes! The beginning of our new role-play! *Cue more cheering and fireworks* I have changed Roberta’s main outfit slightly. Tell me what you think: www.fullmetal-oc-club.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=alchemists&action=display&thread=84 ))
Mary had swapped her white ankle socks for warm black tights, and her light brown shoes for more sturdy, brown ankle boots. She had added a cardigan under her coat and a an earth green scarf around her neck. Roberta had swapped her shorts and tights for dark-grey trousers and white ankle socks and swapped her waistcoat for a nice, midnight-blue sweater. She had buttoned up her coat, adding a scarf and a bobble hat and swapping her normal shoes for Doc Martens. Both females were wearing gloves.
The girl had been reading a new book the whole journey, preventing Mary from asking the one question she had wanted to ask since leaved Roberta with Fiare Torrent in Central those few days ago.
Finally they reached the station.
“It is so…deserted,” Roberta said as they disembarked from the train and looked around, trying to get used to the cold.
“Well, not many like it up here,” Mary said, then replaced her apprentice’s latest book, which she had bought in Central, back in her suitcase, closed it, picking it up and began walking, the girl next to her. Finally she would be able to ask the question she had wanted to ask. But she would ease into it.
“Roberta, did I ever tell you I was born here?” the alchemy teacher asked the girl as they made their way through the snow, their eyes sharp and looking for anything suspicious.
“You were born here?!” the girl replied, her voice raising at the end of the sentence. “How in the world did you and your family survive? It is a complete and utter wilderness out here!”
“Well, that’s why, shortly after I was born, my mother and father moved to Dublith. That’s were Michael was born. When I told him we had moved there from Briggs, he refused to believe until my mother told him otherwise,” the woman paused to laugh. “I’m glad we moved, because if we didn’t, I would have never met you, Roberta.”
“No, you would not. If I had not met you, goodness knows what I would have done.”
Mary could tell what the girl was hinting and decided to change the subject. “Anyway, Roberta. I have been meaning to ask you something.
"Yes?"
"Did anything happen that night I left you alone?”
Roberta stopped. What should I say? I cannot tell her about that Envy Homunculus and my second almost-death, or she will never let my leave her supervision again.
“Roberta?” Mary said, stopping walking and leaning down to peer at the girl’s expression, which was distance with thought.
“Oh!” the girl said, her eyes suddenly becoming focused again. “I am sorry, Sensei.”
“Do you have an answer to my question?”
“Yes. Miss Fiare and I explored intently for a good while, but found nothing, so Miss Fiare escorted me to the hotel. I did not wish to wake you, so I simply took a late-night bath, changed into my pyjamas and retired for the night.”
“Then how…” she grabbed the girl’s wrists and exposed it. “Did you get these?"
The bespectacled teenager gulped. The woman was looking at the scars on her wrists.
“I did wake up, Roberta, and saw you had come back. Despite being asleep, you looked restless. I had a closer look at you, then I saw the marks and that looked you looked shook up.”
The girl had nothing to reply.
“Something did happen that night.”
“I…I fell and grazed myself, nothing more,” Roberta quickly said, getting nervous. “look! Are those tracks?”
Luckily for the young alchemist, there was indeed tracks resembling those of humans, and she set off to follow them. Mary sighed. I’ll just have to ask later.She set off as well, following her apprentice.
((Yes! The beginning of our new role-play! *Cue more cheering and fireworks* I have changed Roberta’s main outfit slightly. Tell me what you think: www.fullmetal-oc-club.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=alchemists&action=display&thread=84 ))