[His energy is wearing thin with the alchemy he did just a few minutes ago, even though the transmutations were next to nothing for a state alchemist. However, this place did something weird to Ed, and that was the only way that he could explain it away.]
It does to me. If you've got a Stone...
[Ed frowns, not willing to say much more on that topic. If this guy had a stone, well, that would change things a little. He's not about to admit that he spent most of his youth searching after the Stone, and that when he realized it's secret, he and Al had known that they couldn't use the damned thing. But they'd gotten themselves in far too deep, and there was other things at stake by that point.]