I'll hold you to it. But that's not exactly what I'm getting at.

[Is there a way to put this much talk of parallel universes and duplicates into words without sounding crazy and convoluted? Probably not.]

It'd be understandable if having known someone like that makes dealing with me even more weird for you. I mean, if I'd met the you from that world...

[He trails off, feeling no need to elaborate. It's just a theory, but it makes about as much sense as anything else he's come up with. He can see how spending time with a human, non-alchemist Al--who might have genuinely needed to be excluded from things for his own good--could color Ed's perception of working with what to him is yet another alternate.]

But we're definitely not the same, and if you and I are going to accomplish anything I need you to try having a little more faith in me.