[He doesn't look at her face as he talks, if only because it makes it easier to keep going. Her hand on his back is steadying.]

Everything fell apart in...it was just a few days. She wanted her Stone, her new body was already starting to rot. And at the end, anyone that got in her way for more than a second, she'd--I'd never seen--

[He has to stop to breathe, and when he starts again his voice is flat, almost hurried. Just to say what he needs to without opening up the entire can of worms. This isn't about him.]

She killed another one of us. Wrath came in afterwards but he didn't know what happened, he didn't know what she could do if he got close. She thought he was going to use alchemy and cause a reaction, and set me to stop him again. I grabbed him and held him back, he wasn't near her, he wasn't. He hadn't done anything. But she opened the Gate anyway, right behind us.

I jumped out of the way, and it took his arm and leg back. [At this, his own hand goes to his right arm, gripping it loosely.] Pulled them right off, and left him on the floor.

He tried to stop me when I was fighting Ed, right afterwards. Grabbed my ankle, and I tried to kick him off. I wasn't thinking about anything but the fight by then.

[His previous single-minded determination to kill his half-brothers is something she's well familiar with by now, so he doesn't go further into it.]

That's the last thing I remember of him before here. I should've been protecting him, and I didn't.