Ishvalans, great..

He had been taken around half-way across the desert on horseback to visit the ruins where Alchemy was first created, traveling with Armstrong and a couple others. He found out Ross was still alive, and not scorched to ash, which was reassuring as well-

Anyway, he was now walking around on his own, Ross had departured to Xing, and the others were off somewhere else. He looked at the first ever transmutation circle, he had noticed this bfore-but had to kept walking. Familiar,he had seen it in the laboratory he had visited..

Grunt!

A man ran up behind him, arms with some sort of wooden tool, and attempted to tackle Ed to the ground. Ed grabbed his arm, shifted away, and threw him to the ground, pinning him down. The cherry struggled for a moment, while Ed took in his features..brownish skin, brown-red eyes..

An Ishvalan.

His eyes widened for a moment, before narrowing as he heard footsteps, watching a group of them surround him. Not in a harmful way, though. Half of them looked like they didn't know a thing about fighting, it was more of a way to show him they were there.

Most of them were murmuring to eachother, while others stayed silent. Some saying things like, "should we attack?..he's one of them.." while others were saying things like, "is he really an alchemist?..he's so young.." "Yeah but even if he's young, he can still do damage-", he looked around,he was ready for battle, but also in shock..what was going on?