The Roof- Thursday Night

[henryoredward.livejournal.com]

Henry managed to make his way to the dorm roof. He'd had a busy week, and needed to relax. He pulled some sheets out of his folder, and opened up his violin case. He tightened the bow strings and rosined them up. The violin needed a serious amount of tuning, due to the climate change. But it was quickly ready. He snapped on a shoulder rest, tucked the instrument under his chin, and started to play. Mozart's first violin concerto in G minor.

[ooc: Open like a box that doesn't even have a lid to close.]

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[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

"They don't support your research?" Alphonse asked. "That's... crazy. If it's for the greater good, I don't see why it should be frowned upon at all."

[henryoredward.livejournal.com]

Backpedal faster, Henry!
He waved it aside. "Oh, it's not a big problem for me. I was just curious s to what kind of social niche Alchemy found. If it was similar at all to Chemestry here."

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

"Ah, here," Alphonse realized as the mun facedesked for misreading. "I guess it falls around the 'yet another unusual thing someone can do' category. No one really bats odd glances at things people are capable of here anymore." He shrugged. "It's almost exactly like chemistry. In fact, I took a class on it my first semester here, and, well... it was all basic stuff I already knew. Except that you can't transmute matter in it."

[henryoredward.livejournal.com]

"No, sadly one cannot transmute." Henry agreed. "Chemistry is the business of taking the long routes everywhere. Cumbersome, yes, but there's a certain flow to it all."

[ooc: Don't worry about it at all. You and Al read Henry correctly the first time. Henry's trying to cover up his own embarassment by changing things around. *rolls eyes* Paranoid...]

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Alphonse gave a sheepish chuckle. "Yeah, I have to admit it's sometimes the easy way out." He averted his eyes off to the side. "I try not to abuse it. I want to use it to help others, not be a bothersome to them."

[henryoredward.livejournal.com]

Henry shook his head. "Oh, no, I didn't mean to imply that at all! Learning alchemy must be so much more difficult than chemistry. After all, it doesn't even exist in this world." He smile and made an admissive gesture. "Save from your work, of course."

[ooc: No worries. I've caused some misreading snafus, too. ^_^;;]

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

"Oh, it's really not all that more difficult," Alphonse began. "If you understand chemistry well then it should be easy. Then there's transmutation circles and understanding how those work, but if you start from the very basics, it's a breeze from there."

[henryoredward.livejournal.com]

Henry opens his mouth to ask what a transmutation circle is, but he figures that he'll leave the practical inquiry for later.
Instead, he asks, "For how long have you been practicing alchemy?"

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

"Hm," he put a hand to his chin. "When I was about five or six. We decided to break into our father's study at a young age."

[henryoredward.livejournal.com]

"Children will be children." Henry grinned. ""We?" Do you have a sibling?"

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

"Oh! I do. Ed's my older brother, he's here at Fandom as well. When we were younger all we ever did was study and practice together."

[henryoredward.livejournal.com]

"I was never fortunate enough to have a sibling, however, I was lucky that one of my closest friends shares my passion for medicine. Thought we plan on different fields, (he in surgery), we've spent a fair amount of time in discussion."
Usually, that entailed arguments, but never anything too bad.