[Thankfully, Al is patient; he's geeking out just as much, even if he is low-key about it.]

We were at war a lot, so my country's military utilized alchemy for making barriers and projectiles and the like. And for healing- since alchemy deconstructs and reconstructs, it can repair broken bone and muscle and veins in a heartbeat. But the person doing it also needed to know their anatomy so it didn't get put back wrong, so doctors and healers still went to school and studied when they could. I want to learn how to heal, so that's a big reason I wanted to study alkahestry. I want to see what else can be done besides either destroying or fixing things.