[ riza, naturally, will hear the entire story, but not right now. first, roy has to figure out how to free her from whatever the hell happened to her, which . . . is likely outside of his control, for the time being. ]

I was told by two individuals who were also kidnapped, in addition to the Elrics, that we are here because of a being named Qri. In order to go back home, we must travel throughout this world and collect "magical energy" [ finger quotes and all ] in order to restore Qri's power, somehow. No one knows more than that.

[ judging from roy's tone, he thinks it's Total Bullshit, and these people kidnapped them probably to kill them eventually. whatever. ]