The look he got coupled with the confident declaration of having dealt with Sloth before was a lot better at convincing Ed than his last argument had been. It still wasn't quite enough though. Ed was still determined not to leave the adult to deal with this alone.

"How'd you deal with the whole water thing?" There wasn't a single hint of skepticism in his voice. He genuinely wanted to know, mostly because he had faced her, experienced her powers for himself, and had only managed to come up with ways that might have done something to her, but probably only result in slowing her down or nothing at all.