1 pannel notebox: when mustang told ed and al about me, they recalled reading something about the philosopher's stone possibly having the ability to open interdimesional portals. 2 pannel nb: not only could this get me home, but this power could be what the boys needed toget their bodies back. 3 pannel nb: the gate was another dimension and one that edward had visited during the human transmutation. he was sure that, that was where al's body and his arm and leg had been taken by means of fufilling the most important law of alchemy. 4 pannel nb: equivalent exchange this was the idea that in order to gain anything, some thing of equal value has to be given up. 5 pannel nb: we didn't even know if these was a currently existing stone, but the fact that i was transported here by an unknown force raised all our hope.