"Maybe if Edward were with me," Alfons said, "but I'm the one going back instead of him? When it should have been me? It was my fault, what happened to him. It's my fault they're never going to see him again, that his brother he tried so hard to get home to will never see him again. I can't imagine anyone there will be terribly glad for my presence. But I have to go, even if only to deliver the letters. But Amestris will still be a better place than Germany is. I'll find something to do there."