Edward smiled faintly. "My brother and I were avoiding reporting in at East City to Roy," he said, settling in to the story. "We heard rumors of the Stone being researched in Xenotime. It was a mining town where the gold had been plentiful, at one time. By the time we got there, it was pretty dried up. The vein was gone, and the land had been stripped of its farming quality by the mining.
"Anyway, we pull into town, and say we're looking into the Stone and we'd be happy to help, if someone could point us in the right direction, basically. We get asked our names, and when we give them, we get kicked out on our asses. Turned out, someone was already there, operating under our names, and the town didn't take kindly to liars. Only problem was, they thought we were the liars."