[No, he couldn't have!! These kind of things take time and it took all the courage to say anything in their own world.

... great, now his mind is all blank about things he was supposed to say. He had it all nicely worked out even! Now he needed to improvise. That could end badly or pretty well. ]

W-Well... it was rather blunt and I could have probably found better words for it then, but.

[Oh freaking-- just say it, Edward Elric. Deep breath.]

I asked you to do an equivalent exchange with me: You'd give me half of your life and I'd give you half of mine!

[Well, that wasn't so hard was it.]