[Seeing Roze took Ed by surprise, and his eyes widened for only a second before he mentally 'tch!'d at himself. Forgetting to ping for magical beings just because there weren't any in range the first time? If anything, his screwing up such a basic principle just served to annoy him more--he was so off his game just from a tiny bit of magic not working.]

[When his response comes, it's with a face that's positively sulky.]

I got here as fast as I could, and all of a sudden my magic isn't working. If you wanna shove haggis down my throat for it, that's fine.

Stupid barrier. Most powerful mage in an entire dimension and I still can't figure out how to break the thing.