That sounds like the world my brother told me about. Apparently, I'd be there with him now if I wasn't here instead. Alchemy was more of a joke than anything to them, from what I gathered anyway. They built these ... rocket ships and invaded our world, to try to harness alchemy as a weapon for some Great War.

[Luckily, Ed's been around the block enough to take offense in things he might have once. At the last part he pauses, glancing away slightly.]

You have a daughter. It ... must be hard, being here without her.