Right.

[He's picking up on this pretty fast, considering Ed hasn't gone into detail.]

I can adjust the components to make them into something else, as long as the molecular structure is still the same. Repairing broken items and creating things with scraps are the most common... It's just a matter of deconstructing and reconstructing the base ingredients.

[Even after five years Ed's still not used to some of the more modern lingo - it wasn't heard often, even in Purg and Attollo - but Cisco is right about one thing. Boasting about alchemy was still something Edward enjoyed.]

With the right ingredients I can create something from scratch...

[A frown at that, it had been quite awhile since Ed created anything from a pile of basic components. The human transmutation, the doll when they were kids. The thought process leads him to another one, human transmutation was one thing - it wasn't possible - but creating chimeras still was.]

Alchemy's capable of a lot, but- just because you can doesn't mean you should.

[He might look like he's speaking from experience there, taking a moment to inspect the railing as if to distract from that thought.]