[IC Contact -- Snowblind]

[bookofnope]

[There is a click noise. It sounds as though it might be judging you.]

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[armoured]

I wasn't?

[That doesn't sound like him, and it takes a moment for him to remember it was because Beckett had been probing about him being potentially non human.]

O-Oh-- haha... but I did answer your question, remember? I told you that I was just a normal kid.

[bookofnope]

Yes. At which point I told you that you aren't a very good liar, and a few more attempts at hedging later we were talking about alchemy. Not much of a track record.

[armoured]

But being able to use alchemy doesn't make you any more than human, it's just a type of science.

[That much, at least, is true. He still sees himself as human, even if his body isn't exactly conventional right now.]

It's not my fault that you don't believe me.

[bookofnope]

Fine, a human with an unusual ability. I stand corrected. [He does not sound corrected. Potayto, potahto. Magic is magic.] I believe this. But I also believe that you were trying to hide it.

[armoured]

I'm sorry if you got that impression, because I have no reason to hide alchemy from anyone and I'm always happy to talk about it.

[That, at least, is the truth even if he knows he's just obscuring something else with it.]

[bookofnope]

[For someone who's so bad at lying, Beckett has to admit, Al is fairly good at dodging. And Beckett dislikes being dodged even more than he dislikes being lied to.]

You are asking for trust while hiding something. I know it. You know it. Are we going to run in circles all day? I have things to do. Not freezing to death is a harder job than it looks.