Either they had some way of finding out everything about their lives, or... or... no, he didn't want to think of that possibility. There was too much to back up his own version of events anyway. Would Lust and Mustang and Hughes remember the same things if they'd never happened? Would everyone else acknowledge his alchemy if it weren't actually real? No. It was real. He knew the truth, they all did.

Ed nodded in agreement. "I though that he was a trick at first. Something the Institute created to try and mess things up more. I was pretty nasty to him," he added sheepishly. He felt terrible for it now.

"We just..." He didn't really know. "I just ignored them most of the time, or got angry and removed to source of that anger. I fixed things." He really wasn't the best person to be talking too about this. Things were complicated enough as it was.