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[maddest]

Game of cards, anyone?

[Deliberate, tense. Nothing like the Break that usually winks and flails at the camera.]

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[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

[And Horst arrives ten minutes later or so, and greets Break with a slight nod.]

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

What is going on?

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[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

With?

[Meaning: what don't you know already?]

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

My aunt Maude.

[Dry as sand.]

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[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

[He tosses his coat on a pile of rubble]

Your guess is as good as mine. You probably know more than I do and, really, what can we do?

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I have someone I can ask.

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[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

...I'm not sure if there's an explanation beyond the obvious one. He's suffering, he's desperate. Desperate men do stupid things.

[But he can't completely squash the hope that maybe, maybe there's something they can do.]

Who can you talk to?

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I can't say. But I'll tell you what I find.

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[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

Well, then I think I like you better than I like most of the people here.

Can you ask them now...?

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. It's a waiting game, now.

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[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

You were here last time, weren't you.

He told me some of it--about you. About the Elrics.

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

What exactly did he tell you?

Be specific.

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[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

[He sighs, and starts to talk but has to stop and swallow a few times. It's too hard, right now, to think about Yuca in any detail.]

What he told me matched up with what Alphonse told me. I don't...understand why specifics make a difference...?