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[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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[Oh, he disturbed her. How lovely. He smirks a bit as he adjusts his glasses.]

That's certainly what it appears to be. Although I'm afraid I'm not especially familiar with this particular application of mechanics. [A slight shrug.] And thus I should refrain from complimenting on how it looks - after all, for all I know, this could be very shoddy craftsmanship.

[Winry was leaning down to pick up the dropped screw when she hears "shoddy craftsmanship." Quickly she sits up straight so that she may properly correct him.]

I'll have you know that automail prosthetics has been a business in my family since my great grandfather's generation! The Rockbell name is known all the way in Rush Valley, and our quality is as good, if not better, than manufactured products!

[And all of that probably means nothing to him.]

[Jade only looks more amused by this out burst. She's almost as touchy as Dist; how promising.]

Oh? Well I can hardly argue with such shining testimony from all those people whom I know nothing of. So you're promising me that, were I to amputate my leg suddenly and for no particular reason, that prosthetic leg would support my weight perfectly as opposed to shattering instantly? Setting aside how frail and elderly I am.

I think I'd question your mental health first, sir.

I see. So you won't serve anyone of an obvious mental instability. That's good to know.

[He's putting words in her mouth! She is visibly getting frustrated.]

Hey, was there anything in particular you came in for?

[And he's just visibly delighted.]

Nothing in particular! I haven't been here long, you see, and I simply felt like browsing the wares here.

Well then... feel free to browse.

Why thank you. I believe I shall.

[He adjusted his glasses and appeared to be beginning to move, but he couldn't but add with a grin.]

You know, you almost remind me of a younger, yet more notably female Dist. [He doesn't care whether she knows him or not, his trolling just would not be complete otherwise.]

[Her disgruntled expression and frustration lifts from her body. Now she simply looks at him curiously.]

You knew Dist?

[It wasn't the reaction he had expected from the comparison, exactly. He had wanted to frustrate her further. But that someone knew Dist and wasn't revolted by being compared to him - it was almost a revolutionary concept for Jade.

He was no longer smirking, but he sighed and pressed some fingers to his forehead.]

Unfortunately, we've happened to be acquainted for the majority of our lives.

Then you must know that despite him being super weird he was incredibly bright. So if you're going to compare me to him? Thank you.

[HMPH. THERE. Honestly she misses Dist. He was one out of only a handful of people she could techno-speak with. And even though he had his... act, she seemed to get along with him anyway.]

Dist has a fan! [He says a slight amused tone, back to sarcasm as self-defense.] I'm sure if he could remember any of this back at home, he'd have far too much excitement to be handled. It's only a shame that even such brightness was outshone by so, so many other flaws.

Oh don't start. He had a lot of personality quirks, but they weren't too bad. Dist wasn't a bad guy, just a bit... well delusional is too strong of a word. All he really seem to want is to be recognized.

Then I suppose he's done a good enough job of being recognized by the Malkuth Imperial Forces. As a threat, of course. [This defense of Dist continues to utterly baffle him.]

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Well I wonder why, because he wasn't a threat to anyone here.

I suppose that would merely be a matter of circumstances. [Professor Nebilim was here. That must have effected so much.] You know, no one around to lead him astray and convince him to kill for their vendettas.

But you clearly know him better. I'll be sure to use as a character reference should he ever make parole.

I wouldn't doubt him being very impressionable.

[She doesn't comment on the rest of what he said. There's no point. However despite not seeing that side of Dist (because she was younger than him so it's not like she could have made much of an impact) she could easily see someone manipulating Dist with promising words even if they weren't true.]

[As oddly frustrated as this appreciation of Dist makes Jade, he isn't too keen on trying to completely destroy her image of him. They did just meet, after all.]

Precisely. If I had to credit him with one thing, it would be having the tenacity of cockroach. No matter how many times it's seemed certain, he's always been able to elude death.

Do you bully him back home?

[Your word choices are suspect.]

[Now wherever could you get that idea, Winry.]

I'm not so sure if it qualifies as "bullying" when you're on two opposing sides of a conflict. But, you can certainly say I was rough on him in our youth. He was always insufferably persistent in tagging along with me, after all.

And so instead of being flattered someone liked you enough to want to be with you, you decided to compare them to things like cockroaches?

Hm... Yes, that seems to be it exactly. Trading away his flattery also comes with trading away having to act as his caretaker.

[She rolls her eyes here. Of course some guy is going to vulnerable to suggestion when the person he goes to for reassurance rebuffs him. She sighs and begins to twist in a screw to the leg she was working on.]

Well don't let me keep you from browsing.

[At a surface glance of Jade, one would assume the most difficult thing to do would be to apologize. That was a misnomer; sincere apologies may be rare for him, but it's not something that's difficult for him. No, the hardest thing for him would probably be to acknowledge that friendship, that sincere friendship that Dist wanted so desperately for Jade to accept. He certainly wasn't going to try now.

He puts on a cheery smile as if the argument never happened - and even makes a small bow.]

Why, thank you. It's been a pleasure to make your acquaintance.

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