Prologue: The New Beginning
Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth. Of the world isn't perfect, and the law is incomplete. Equivalent exchange doesn't encompass everything that goes on here, but I still choose to believe in its principal. That all things do come at a price. That there’s an end, and a quarrel, a cycle. That the pain we went through did have an reward. And that anyone who is determined and preservers will get something of value in return, even if it's not what they expected. I don't think of equivalent exchange of the law of the world anymore. I think of it as a promise, between my brother and me. A promise that someday, we'll see each other again.
Full Metal Alchemist
Full Blooded
...Three Years Has Past...
(Written By: Johnny L. Westbrook)