Yeah. Alphonse, he's a year younger than I am. As for the promise....well. I lost my arm and leg when I was eleven. He lost his body. I managed to bind his soul to a suit of armor but that's only temporary until I figure fixing things.

[It isn't so much a secret anymore. That and it isn't like people here knew? About alchemy having forbidden human transmutation, and he didn't even mention the attempt to bring Trisha back. Yet. His left arm crosses over to hold to the fabric of the sleeve at his right, briefly.]

That's my promise. That I would fix things for him, get him his original body back.