[Ed is also one to go quiet when news is extreme, so he recognizes it in Cisco immediately. He'd triggered something there, and he wasn't sure what until the other spoke.]

Yeah...

[A disarming grin accompanied that response, waving a hand dismissively. He could see that it bothered Cisco, but he wasn't sure of the in depth reasoning.]

Youngest ever to pass the State Alchemy exam, I'm ... kind of famous back home.

[It sounds less somber that way, right? Like it was no big deal and clearly not a normal habit of the military to enlist minors. He's just trying to take the edge off, no idea if it will work though.]

I've been looking since I got here... but that was in June, not that long ago. Not long enough to really uncover anything. I'm part of the Guard myself, I have too many skills to really limit to one particular unit so I've been able to snoop around a few places.