[That's...strange. Complicated. She doesn't have a reason to lie to him about it or make it up, but he still resists the idea.]
[He wants to hate Alphonse Elric completely, and it would be easy to just take away that he'd lied in the first place and use that to hate him more.]
[But...didn't deserve to be lied to like that? And Al didn't have to tell Heather at all. There was nothing for him to have gained by it, he could have just told her everything Envy had ever done and made himself out like a saint in comparison. It was what Envy had expected him to do if Al ever spoke to any of Envy's friends. It was what he'd been afraid of.]
[For Al to have done the unexpected instead...it knocks a crack in that wall, one that he doesn't want to think about.]
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[That's...strange. Complicated. She doesn't have a reason to lie to him about it or make it up, but he still resists the idea.]
[He wants to hate Alphonse Elric completely, and it would be easy to just take away that he'd lied in the first place and use that to hate him more.]
[But...didn't deserve to be lied to like that? And Al didn't have to tell Heather at all. There was nothing for him to have gained by it, he could have just told her everything Envy had ever done and made himself out like a saint in comparison. It was what Envy had expected him to do if Al ever spoke to any of Envy's friends. It was what he'd been afraid of.]
[For Al to have done the unexpected instead...it knocks a crack in that wall, one that he doesn't want to think about.]
...oh.
[HE'S NOT REALLY SURE WHAT TO SAY.]