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[empressofxing.livejournal.com]

What the hell? I didn't think we would arrive in Xing this quickly, and to just dump me in a room like this? Well I mean I know there are plenty of people that aren't exactly happy about me, to put it lightly, but I thought they'd at least show common courtesy, however forced.

More importantly what is up with this room? Xingese interior decorating sucks. This is the kind of room that Edward would come up with.

[there is the sound of the welcoming video starting and running in the background. Winry becomes silent throughout all of it until finally, and eloquently]

---the hell?

((ooc; hi guys 8D;;; have empress winry arriving in Death City. Anyone can go ahead and tag as if responding to this entry, or in action if they are in the chamber))

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[kingofthepeople.livejournal.com]

[Takes her hand and gets back to his feet.] Hopefully it will not be much longer.

We should head to my apartment. Ed and Al are here as well, they will want to see you.

[empressofxing.livejournal.com]

They're here too?! Who else is?

[kingofthepeople.livejournal.com]

[Lists off a few familiar names for her.]

[empressofxing.livejournal.com]

[oooooi. Hand to head. This has all been a lot of information to take in at once. She's pretty happy just going with the flow for now, at least until she gets the chance to properly digest it all. She fumbles a bit, irritably, with the long sleeves of her clothing before placing her hand on her hips]

Sheesh, but okay. Let's go to these apartments. I'm beat from all that traveling and now this.

[kingofthepeople.livejournal.com]

[Nods. Sigh. The rest of the city was going to flip. He wondered if he was going to have to keep the rest of the city from telling her about...]

Mm, alright, then. I'll contact my partner, we can have lunch there too.

[seeks-thetruth.livejournal.com]

[THIS IS ED BURSTING THROUGH THE DOOR.]

Winry!

[empressofxing.livejournal.com]

[JESUS she jumps at that and looks at him, she knew he was coming but she didn't realize it'd be so quick. Regardless she smiles at him. After so much talk of war and the dangers here it was nice to see Edward, alive and well]

Ed!

[kingofthepeople.livejournal.com]

[Oh hey its Ed. He didn't realize he was coming-- though he should have expected it. He's standing behind her so the look he passes to Ed is unseen by her.]

[It's its a small sad smile.]

[seeks-thetruth.livejournal.com]

[He sees but doesn't altogether register or react to Ling's smile, because Winry's right here and she looks the same, if a bit older - hell, they're all older now - and he doesn't stop walking till he's pretty close to her.]

Winry, you're -

[...one of these things is not like the others.]

The hell's all that?

[empressofxing.livejournal.com]

[This is beginning to feel odd. There's just something about the way that Ed and Ling have reacted to her that doesn't quite seem to fit---but then she figures. They've been here three years, right? Which means they haven't seen her in any of those three years]

What the hell is...? Oh this? [she looks down at her clothing]

Er. Well you know since I was visiting I thought 'why not?' Kind of pretty, don't you think? [jeez how long can she keep this up?]

[kingofthepeople.livejournal.com]

[Takes the time to actually notice her clothes now. Like, really look at them.

...those are far too formal to just be for a visit. In fact they look ....

but there was no way, was there?]

They are. Ah, perhaps we should move to somewhere more accommodating to finish talking? One of our apartments?

[seeks-thetruth.livejournal.com]

[...Okay, you know what. Winry is here, he won't fixate on the weird clothes.]

Yeah. My place should be empty.

[empressofxing.livejournal.com]

[she smiles glad that was put behind them]

So where to?