"No I can't do magic! Nobody can do magic! Some people learn to do Alchemy, but I haven't been able to get anyone to teach me. But it involves equivalent trade and diagrams! It's certainly not magic. And nobody can put it in a ball to use later!" Remembering his question, she wrenched herself back to the problem at hand.

"No, I don't know her. I don't know anybody here. But I don't have any money - Mom had all my pocket money. And just looking out the window, I can tell that we would have a hard time walking to a place where he might be."