Going back a few hours to Winry's initial arrival in the Northern area, she had been guarded at the foot of the mountain until Solf Kimblee arrived to escort her to Fort Briggs. On the car ride up, Kimblee had made small-talk, asking if Winry's parents had been the Doctors Rockbell who had lost their lives during the Ishval Civil War and remarking that his unit had recovered the Rockbells' bodies from their place of death and that he had arrived too late for them. Kimblee had stated that, for having followed their convictions and stayed on the battlefield up until the moment of their deaths, the Rockbells earned his respect and he only wished he could have met them.