He does catch the look, and as always, it's a warm reminder of why he's willing to admit to these things to her in the first place. She's not his master to push that envy towards bitter fury and she's not an alchemist to demand he be as he was or die and she's not a homunculus exactly but she knows. Of all the things she could do, she'll look at him like that.

"I...yeah, maybe. I think I'll have to ask her either way, and see what she wants to tell me."

Not for the first time, he wishes he'd been capable of thinking to ask her about these things back then. But at least they have the opportunity now. He sighs and shakes his head, then thinks of something that makes him let out a little half snicker.

"Because somehow, I really doubt Scar would want to explain his life story to me."