Fanfiction: The Dream of Those Who Wake (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Title: The Dream of Those Who Wake
Fandom: FMA (manga version)
Character(s): Al and Ed.
Pairing(s): None.
Word Count: ~1500
Warnings: None (we all know Ed can get colorful when he's annoyed, right?). Takes place in an imagined future after the end of the series, but without spoilers.
A/N: I thought I had settled in my own mind how I expect the story to end, and then this piece pops up out of nowhere to contradict half of my assumptions. Concrit welcomed with jiaozi and chaofan. Crossposted from nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e. hagaren_manga, fm_alchemist, fma_gen, fma_writers and fma_fiction).
Dedication(s): For fmanalyst and cornerofmadness as a joint belated birthday present, because they made me think.

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      It had been such a long day at the clinic that when Al tried to unlock his apartment door and found the bolt already thrown back, his first thought was, Damn, I hope he's eaten. One box of pork-fried rice, even with a side of potstickers and a fortune tea cake, was nowhere near enough to feed two hungry Elrics.

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Personal Note: Time for something new

So I've updated my layout, mostly because I wanted a tag cloud; it's handy. I was also poking around in the FAQ structure and realized that I could twiddle a few more things than I'd thought. So here's the new and improved Forsan et haec. The color scheme appears to work with all my icons, though I miss having them to the right of the text. Ah, well: beggars (or content-providers-only) can't be choosers. Besides, I suspect most of my readers are clicking straight through to individual entries, which I've left in plain form, anyway, so it's likely that no one will notice the difference but me.

ETA: The incomparable ishte has shown me how to get my icons to display on the right. Woot!