Ed grimaced slightly at Diedara's 'explanation' and rolled his eyes. 'Last I heard, "magic" was not a place,' he replied in a dry voice. Although 'magic,' in his experience tended to mean 'process that we don't understand,' and since Sasori didn't bother to correct his partner, it suggested that they didn't know the mechanism, which was disappointing. 'Should I take that to mean that you don't know why it works, just that it does?' he asked with a sigh.

Ed looked down in surprise when his left hand, which had been sitting on top of Pride's head, suddenly fell. 'Pride?' he called, looking around, although it was obvious the homunculus had done his disappearing act and wasn't going to be visible anywhere in the room. 'Pride, what's wrong? Where did you go?' Ed asked the empty air around him, his brow knitting. Had the topic upset him? Was Pride not aware of what he was? Of course, since he didn't seem to have been assimilated by Dante or the other homuncli, it was probably pretty likely that he didn't, just as Wrath hadn't.