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[This week, Varric opted to take a page from Vanille’s book. Gathering everyone together after the roller-coaster that the first trial had been proved to be somewhat cathartic for himself. He hoped that it would prove to do the same for the others.]

[He wasn’t alone, of course, having found himself blessed with the most ragtag team of chefs and party-planners. He might have had words for and thoughts on Elda and Kimbley, Mikazuki was welcome company, and he wasn’t about to turn away potential allies, even in a fight as simple as cooking dinner.]

[Once everyone’s set to a task, baking a cake, brewing tea, or stirring stew (the only task Varric could think to assign Elda to), Varric excused himself to his room. His first task was writing up cards, each personally titled and signed by Varric.]

Food in the Library. 5 p.m. Don’t spend the night alone.

[Each note was slid under a door and accompanied by a single rap on the wood.]

[With his tasks completed, Varric returned to the kitchen to put out any potential fires and, with luck, set the food out. A table in the library would be adorned with plenty of tea, cake, pancakes courtesy of Viktor, and stew thanks mostly to Varric (sorry, Elda).]

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...What does religion have to do with it?

Greed's one of the church's seven vices.

It's a sin in general, isn't it?

[...we don't have christians but damn do we have the seven deadly? welcome to fma.]

Well yeah, but they have these even big ones some old guy wrote about in a book once.

Huh.

I mean, we have religion where I'm from, but it's not all that widespread and unless it came in with the Ishvalans, who are all just kind of like that, it tends to be kind of culty? So it's not something I really know about.

[ Lucky ]

Religion's not that big to everyone in Japan unless they're priests or monks, but they all sort of obey shrine visits and such. Back in Europe it used to be everyone had to hear out the church.

Well...we've got some concept of God, but that's different from religion - there's a difference between God and Ishvala or Leto, or any of the others that I've heard about. God isn't really a faith thing.

Honestly, it's like that with most vampires or a lotta people who weren't brow-beaten by priests in Europe. That said, they also wouldn't let anyone else have faith in some other God than theirs.

It's mostly just seen as weird and culty, back in Amestris. But if people want to be weird and culty, they can be weird and culty.

[ She frowns.

And then shakes her head ]

So what, you're writing to Greed?

Yeah. He's a guy I know, he owns the bar I'm living in right now - he's pretty great, the sort of crazy I tend to like in a person.

He's named Greed?

Wow.

Yeah, he is.

[...]

No, I don't know if he has any siblings, but I'm sure they're just as awkwardly-named if he does.

Man, he might have some weird folks or something.

[ EITHER WAY... ]

So you're writing notes to your roomie?

Yeah, something like that. He helped me out when I really needed someone to, saved my life or something like that. So he's kind of important.

He's sort of like a lot of you guys are - he looks like he's maybe 30, but I'm pretty sure he's a lot older than that.

Oh! So you've got people like that where you're from too. Not a vampire though, right?

[ He didn't seem like he thought they were real, so ]

Homunculus, actually.

[ She runs that through her head...

Does she know that... word... ]

Isn't that an alchemy thing...?

Alchemically-created people, yeah.

Oh yeah, that's it.

--Wait, what the hell?!

...Yeah, I don't get why anyone would either.

Forget the why?! There's also how...?! And a lot...

Of other things I guess don't matter.

[ She laughs it off, mostly because her brain can't process any more twists tonight ]

So you're homesick or something?