[ she nods - once - at the confirmation. feels it settle like a coat over her shoulders. they are safe. it worked. everything they worked so hard to do, everything they sacrificed- it's a first step, sure, and there is a long road after it. a road to ishval, a road to rebuild, but they made it there.

riza lets out another breath, settling more into herself. and with each passing second, it gets easier. something to do, something to work towards. she may not be solid, but she can be her. ]

Magic? [ there's no point trying to hide the suspicious tilt to her tone, one brow arching. it's uncertain if that look is because edward elric was talking about magic or if it was due to magic being mentioned at all, but it's there all the same.

and then he says it - neither of them have their bodies back - and riza freezes up for another moment. of course they would, roy had mentioned that the boys succeeded, but it takes a second or so before she can push herself back out of it. because she trusts him, wholly and entirely, so it's not much second guessing as it is giving her the moment to accept it and keep going. ]

So they are missing memories and...their bodies, then? [ she pauses, then she looks back to him, curious. ] Did you tell them what happens? [ because she can imagine that could go a few different ways.

she presses her lips into a line at his comment, keeping her uncertainty about whatever about this could be reversed to herself. instead, she nods. it would be better if they could, she would be of better use if they could, so she will default to his direction in this.

( being able to change out of this coat, being able to actually look at the wound, are also benefits to it all. she's alive, she knows she is, but the current state of her body leans otherwise and she'd like to right that. )

roy's hand is still around her wrist. she becomes aware of this in the same moment she realizes she still doesn't quite feel safe enough to remove her wrist from his hold. ]

Have you had any contact with our captors?