Oh, Riku you have no idea. But then, given a bit of time Ed probably would be willing to talk a bit more on the situation back home. Filtered/in person as almost always but he's still just cautious like that just in case someone like Bradley were to possibly show up. Not that there is a lot to be done from here about all that Promised Day etc but still. We could work to that.

And as for the alchemy, he's a big show off so if Riku asked, he'd likely be all too happy for a demonstration sometime.