"I guess it kind of was," Ed said, frowning briefly in thought before grinning. "I was a bit too surprised at the time to pay much attention to how it looked though." He'd been too busy staring at his hands as though they'd just turned into the Philosopher's Stone itself.

"Eh..." He looked just a little embarrassed at the question. "It was an accident. Someone made a huge tower out of stone, it began to fall over and I just acted on instinct. It was the transmutation that made me realise I didn't need an array to perform alchemy. I dunno why petals though, but the cleanup took days."