Where is the best place to start asking questions? He smiles to himself, thinking how the person he really is likely never imagined he'd be clueless about such basic things. "What is our country's name?" he might has well start calling it by its proper title if he had been some sort of solider.

"And... alchemy. That's what your father was teaching me, wasn't it? I've started remembering circles and instructions, rules and more chemical facts than I ever studied here- I mean. More than what Pride put into my head." Right. It was Pride, not a real childhood in Americana.

"I actually tried it in private. Just reshaping some metal." Many metals, especially the pure ones, made excellent beginning subjects in alchemy. "It was just a spoon, nothing fancy, but it worked."