Al nods along, making careful mental notes of what Link says. "A fire-breathing beast? That's going to be difficult--how fast is it?"

Alphonse shook his head. "I know, it sounds impossible, but it's the truth of it. I know exactly when and how both of them died, and it wasn't long before I'd woken up here--though both of them have been here a lot longer than that."

He sighed, leaning back into the seat and pulling out his granola bar. "Maybe they were brought here just before they truly died, and the doctors here revived them somehow--if they could get my body back from the Gate, then brinking someone back from the brink of death might not be so difficult for them."