Metal reacts

[grassangel]

Title: Metal reacts

Day/Theme: Nov. 6, 'come with me, under my coat'
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters/Pairing: Ed/Winry
Rating: G

 

Note: Weird sciencey dialouge within.

Metal reacts. To acid, water and oxygen.
Forming salt and water, hydroxides, oxides.

Those are the scientific, chemical reactions that metal experiences.

It turns to liquid at high temperatures and up until that moment, becomes soft and malleable; except in the case of mercury which is in a liquid state at room temperature.
It's physical properties are ductility, conductivity, strength, it's shiny and often grey.

Those are the other properties that metal has.

 

All of these are scientific fact, proven over and over. There is no need to further explore these properties unless an anomaly appears.
This is what we know, what we know for certain.

But what we don't is how metal reacts to other things, or what it's properties are when exposed to other things, what happens when it's in the presence of something else.
Like love, opposition, memories.
But do these really react with metal?

I think they do. Ever since this arm was fabricated, ever since my leg needed oiling, I have believed all of this.
I do not believe in a god, nor do I see any reason to. You cannot see, cannot feel, cannot experience them.
I still believe that metal can be changed by these non-physical elements. You feel them, you can experience and you can see.

I forever appriciate, forever love, the person who made my arm, my leg. It's because she loves me too, that they are so strong and able to hold these promises I've made.
I bring her work wherever I go, safely tucked away, hidden within the sleeve of my coat.