Elsa lifted her head just enough to rest her chin on the bar, staring at her drink dully. "My life stopped being complicated the day the old man left," she said quietly. "And it started being complicated again the second she walked back into my life, and it's my own damn fault, because as much as I hate to admit it, I'm too much an Elric. You'd think after so many damn years, I'd stop being one. I don't want to be one. Because Elrics just leave people."