There's that look again. "Yeah, she's really goddamn lucky that's all that happened," he says, completely ignoring the fact that just the other day he'd been encouraging her to trust the fact that these alternates, Gate or not, were still Elrics.
Ah, Edward. May his hypocrisy ever reign.
He crumples the letter into a ball, tossing it in the trash. "This wasn't anything that needed asking about anyway, and don't you dare go telling anyone in the family about it," he warns, giving his brother a stern look as he set his glasses down on the desk. "You'll only get their hopes up."