Alphonse is gone? You're for sure? Like, he could just be in those frozen tubes.

[He's already wizzing off to check as he says it, sighing once he's been out of the medbay and settled against the wall. He liked the Elric brothers, enough that the news of one's disappearance has more of his attention than what she's really after.

He wonders briefly who's looking after Than and Ben with Al gone, and his expression sours.]

Jesus, you leave for a few weeks and everything gets turned around.