Beach, Copper Isles - Afternoon

Roy was on a horse again. Which shouldn't surprise him quite as much as it did. At least he didn't try riding Flouncy this time and Bounder had just the right temperament for a lousy ride like Roy. Plus, they'd gone down to the beach and sand was soft to fall on. He vaguely wondered if it would help Lianna forget that he'd missed Aly's birthday. He did wish there was another way beside public humiliation to get on the girl's good side. Honestly, the girl was as hard to read as her mother was and Roy had no clue where he stood despite Aly's reassurances. He did know one thing and that was that Lianna definitely wanted it that way.

He wondered if Ed (the boy, not the bratty alchemist) would be like this as well once he got a bit older, but he didn't think so and he really shouldn't be thinking of Ed right now.

"I think I'm getting hungry," he said. Which he wasn't, his ass was just getting sore.