Mm.

[He understands that she's trying to reassure him, but this is too huge of a thing for platitudes. He could hope that Ed would only see the culmination of their efforts finally bearing fruit, but he knows his brother too well. Ed will ask why, and he will blame himself if the answers aren't what they like.]

But I don't know how it happened, what if-- what if they used a philosopher's stone on me? Brother and I swore that we would never do that, no matter what happened.