Ed couldn't fault the logic of that. He dropped his voice slightly to reply, unwilling to let the nurses hear what he was saying. "That's not a bad idea. Might help us figure something out about how to leave too."

He turned so he could sit back on the sofa, legs stretched out in front of him. "It's... fairly common I guess. Takes a lot of study for most people and only those with a certain aptitude tend to be able to make it work well enough to bother." It was possible to perform alchemy without that aptitude by using the correct arrays, but really, the effort it took to do even small things made it rather pointless.