He -- we were trying to do something forbidden. Human Transmutation. We just wanted to see our mother smile again. To bring her back after she got sick.

[Ed admits. He isn't lying about it, isn't hiding it. If people ask. He raises his right arm, glancing to the auto-mail prosthetic.]

My leg was taken, his whole body was. I got his soul back, bound it to the suit of armor. That's how my arm was taken.

[There's always a catch. Always a cost. Ed's always one to wonder on what the catch is. The toll, the price. What he is willing to pay.]