What Ifs on top of What Ifs. It doesn't escape Oswald's notice that Ed isn't naming the person who kicked the shit out of him and it must be for a reason. Whether it's a good reason or a dubious one isn't clear, but what they each don't say is almost always equally as important as what they do.

Oswald had been ready to make a comment on the scenario that Ed has described when the question about the pie presents itself in true Ed non-sequitur fashion. It makes Oswald's face scrunch briefly from the demand to shift mental gears as he finds himself sort of chuckling faintly.

"The pie is..." the impulse to say something spiteful just for the sake of it rises again, just briefly, sort of like muscle memory but it's a fleeting internal feeling that doesn't show on expression because the desire to be truthful and earnest wins out this time as he looks at Ed with a careful, cautious little smile, "Really quite excellent, actually. You always were a good cook, but this is... Really very good indeed."