Was that…Ed? My memories were hazy, so I couldn't make out specifics like what he was wearing or just how he sat. I could only see his golden eyes, wide with terror. I shifted to my elbows, still looking at him upside down, throat exposed to the ceiling.
"Alex…!"
Phantom pain zinged through me but I ignored it, sweating with the effort of trying to remember. Unbidden, my arm lifted from my side and reached towards the memory of Tyler. I grasped but couldn't reach him.
"NO!" Alphonse's voice blared through the room, shattering the illusion of Tyler and jerking me out of my position in surprise. I looked at him, alarmed, heart pounding in my throat.
"Al…? Al!" I grunted in protest as he strode over and forcefully lifted me from the center of the circle. In an almost painful influx, I fel
