another chapter of my greed lives au is out! greed decided to be stubborn in this one and NOT return to resembool like he was supposed to. but it worked out great for his character development, so i can't really be mad.
Greed talked.
There was no one to lend a listening ear, but he pretended that the drinks he poured really did belong to his crew. He told them everything that had happened to him in the time that he had been gone—about meeting Ling, traveling with him and Ed and Darius and Heinkel, and about traveling to Xing and becoming its emperor.
“There's a princess there that doesn't take anyone's shit, Martel,” he said to the cup that would have been Martel. “You would have liked her—though she's an empress now.”
Dolcetto heard all about the weapons, there, and Ulchi heard all about the women. To Roa, Greed described what he imagined would happen if he had ever met Lan Fan—it would have been entertaining, having both of them dramatically standing behind him when he had to listen to other clans giving him stupid requests and complaints.
But to Bido…
Even with Bido's cup full, Greed couldn't find the words. He was the only one of his crew that hadn't died here, and the only one of them that had directly been his fault. It was strange, realizing that. They would have all still been alive if Greed hadn't decided to hold Alphonse Elric hostage that day, but it was Bido alone who had directly died at his hand.
Greed didn't finish his own drink.