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[installing]

[Today Winry has a busy day! Despite things in her neck of the woods slowly turning normal(ish), she has a lot to do. Feel free to bump into her at any time/place!

[Late Morning: The Library]
With Ed in the tunnels Winry has been running books back and forth. Sokka has done this too, but she's taking this chance to also pick something up herself. A romance novel with a monochrome book cover catches her eye. She'll flip through the first couple chapters in the library before taking off.

The book reads:
I scowl with frustration at myself in the mirror. Damn my hair – it just won’t behave, and damn Katherine Kavanagh for being ill and subjecting me to this ordeal. I should be studying for my final exams, which are next week, yet here I am trying to brush my hair into submission. I must not sleep with it wet. I must not sleep with it wet. Reciting this mantra several times, I attempt, once more, to bring it under control with the brush.

[Early Afternoon: The Smithy]
Work as usual - not. Off and on Winry tends to small chores and cleaning up prototypes, but nothing extremely productive. She might end up slacking off and reading again on the couch.

The book reads:
Portland disappears in front of us as we head into US Airspace, though my stomach remains firmly in Oregon. Whoa! All the bright all the bright lights shrink until they are twinkling sweetly below us. It's like looking from inside a fishbowl.

[Late afternoon: The Square]
Winry sits herself on a bench. The book she checked out was very boring so far. The writing wasn't even that good. She reads much further, but at some point she frowns. The mechanic's expression looks like one of disgust as her calloused hands slam the smooth book shut. Quickly Winry sets aside the book to open up her journal:]

Hey, would you trust anybody that made you sign a contract if you were going to keep being with them?

[She glares at the book beside her. Should she finish it? Honestly it's making her very uncomfortable. Maybe she should have picked up a medical text instead.]

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[entreats]

... Sign a contract? [ What. :| Give her a moment to think about it, but.. it just seems like a ridiculous idea no matter how you put it.. ]

Why would anyone make you do that?

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[installing]

Maybe because they like weird things? I dunno, but would you trust someone like that?

[entreats]

Not really. I mean, I don't think I'd easily sign contracts in general. If I'll give my trust to people, then I'll do that whenever I decide to, not just since they have some contract for me or whatever.

[installing]

So then would you break it off with them then and there?

[entreats]

Yeah. [ Well-- ] Unless I'd be close with them already, then I guess it might not be entirely bad. But if we weren't close, I would get away from there as quickly as possible.

[installing]

Yeah, because it's shady, isn't it? Like someone is trying to take advantage of you.

[entreats]

There's probably some sort of weird fine print in there that makes you surrended your soul to them. .. Or.. well, I guess it'd be something less bad in real life, but it could still suck.

[installing]

What makes you go straight to surrendering your soul?

[entreats]

Isn't that usually what happens when you sign a shady contract in stories?

[installing]

I don't know... I've heard someone sign away their first born?

[entreats]

.. So would you just sign away your first born then without thinking much of it?

[installing]

What? no, of course not. That was just in a fairy tale.

[entreats]

Well, there's plenty of stuff in this place that seems like it comes right out of fairytales. I wouldn't put those kind of contracts past some people in this place.

[installing]

I guess you're right...

Jeez, that's weird to think about!

[entreats]

[ she shrugs a little to herself. ]

It's just for the best to be careful in general, I guess. Before you know it you'll be caught up in something you'd rather be far away from here.

[installing]

Have you had any experience with that?

[entreats]

Hm.. In a way, I guess. I've been involved with people I'd rather not be involved with here before, but it wasn't because of a contract or whatever. At least, not one I signed here.

[installing]

What do you mean- [No, Winry. That might be prying.]

What kind of unsavory people?

[entreats]

Witches.

[ Plain and simple. Although she says it as if it's a natural thing. ]

[installing]

Witch-

So they're real in your world?

[entreats]

Sort of. It's pretty complicated, but let's just say that they exist and most people just don't know about it.

Besides, I'm fairly sure they exist. I'm one too, after all. [ Just saying.. ]

[installing]

Oh you- I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude.

[entreats]

No offense taken. After all, I'm just human too. I don't exactly look like some stereotypical witch, right?

[installing]

No, I guess not. So is there no way to tell a witch from a normal person?

[entreats]

Not really. Most of them dress pretty strangely, but that's just not my sort of thing. [ .. not until later in canon, at least.. ]

But most of them like to declare they're witches all over the place, so you wouldn't have much trouble recognizing them, I'm sure.