White Alchemist

Back together

Waiting for them at the doors to Wallace's academy was everyone. All their other classmates, all the other teachers, all the second years, all other staff, and of course Horace himself were gathered at the gate for the return of Sidney and Earl.

It was as emotional as they thought it'd be. The classmates nearly piled on the two of them, throwing questions at them as they cried over their return.

Everyone was glad that the prodigal sons had returned. Horace had the softest expression anyone had ever seen the moment he laid eyes on Sidney and Earl.

He had bags under his eyes. Not the kind you get from crying—Everyone thought it impossible for a man of his caliber to cry—it was one you'd get from sleepless nights.

Earl and Sidney would later come to know—From Leon Glenn, Sidney's older brother, while he was drenched in tears for his younger brother's return—that Horace had been working the hardest.

He'd been not only personally training all the first years for the entirety that the other