Before now, Edward had felt like he had been speaking to yet another version of himself. The guy he had been talking to up until this point had been easier to get answers from and didn't seem to react as strongly as the one he had met in Riverview.

Now there was no doubt that this was the same person.

"Yeah," he let out quietly. Ed didn't know who had been there at what times. All he knew was that the place was more or less empty when he had arrived. He gave absolutely no thought to who might have been still been there when the guy he was talking to now had been dragged into Zhautas and he felt like an idiot for not realizing it until it was too late. "I'm sorry." For being a moron and for the fact that he lost his brother. Again.

He looked away, giving the poor guy all the time he needed to compose himself.