Atelier Something Something [Open]

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Ed was up and about and puttering around a small building that he had found. It was a fancy little thing that looked like it stepped out of a French boutique. Inside he had found a workspace, like it was a mechanic store, but there were vials everywhere and other assorted items. One of the rare few places that still retained some presence of the former owners.

As such, he had come up on an idea while getting better: a store for Alchemy. Not just any store, but a store designed to make little things for people that were within the realm of transmutation.

Thus, gathering loose items such as ores, junk, broken toys (he checked to make sure they weren't alive like Woody), and other such brick-a-brack, he had placed them around the shop to make it feel more welcoming.

Finally he was done, and with it came a name. The faded sign read Atelier which meant an artists studio or workroom. Thus being said, he was pouring over a list of possible names for his store, keeping in the tradition of Atelier something something.

In his haste to keep the items together, he had left the door open, awaiting visitors.

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"That's what alchemy is," replied Ed as he examined the wall, clapped his hands and widened the door into a open arch that lead into the small hallway that he had created in between both buildings before repeating the process. "The process of understanding, deconstructing and reconstructing matter from one form to another. I'm not so much as turning something into completely new than changing the look of it."

He pointed at the ground which was now covered in wood from the wall. "Everything has to go somewhere. You just can't create something out of nothing, unless you use something unquantifiable like magic."

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"S-sounds... i-interesting. A-a lot l-like ch-chemistry. I-it's 'the science of m-matter and the changes it undergoes'. W-we were s-studyin' i-it in school b-before... y-you know..." He idly waved around, indicating the ship as a whole.

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"Chemistry is a part of the Alchemist process," said Ed. "Not many people mix concoctions together, not with most of the focus on transmutations rather than compounds. But we have a lot of alchemists who know Rentanjutsu, the Eastern medicinal alchemy."

"And yeah I getcha," he added. "No worries."

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Alex cocked an eyebrow. So, it was a lot more than sounding similar. That was... pretty cool. He hadn't been too bad in Chemistry, but there was no way that he had enough of a grasp on it to really be able to know what something was made of by looking at it.

What was more impressive was that a kid about his age could.

"Y-you... m-must be talented..."

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"Well I don't like to toot my own horn," boasted Ed, clearly full of himself for the moment. "But I'm the youngest State Alchemist ever. Earned my certificate at 14."

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Well, it sounded impressive... "S-state Alchemist?"

For now at least, between the conversation and Alex's return to his sewing, his mind was off of the things that had transpired recently.

It had been a whole ten minutes without either being asleep or making a sobbing sound.