Author's note:This story is starting after Murtagh was captured.I'm writing this for my friend.
Disclaimer: I do not own Christopher Paolini's characters but I do own some characters during the story, like Kyra and Adrian.
It was a cold night. While the town was in silence, Galbatorix's towers were full of people who were going around fast. Galbatorix was angry again and all his servants could do was fulfilling his orders quickly. A young girl with long black hair was standing in the hall and watching what is going on. Finally she took a deep breath. Sometimes it was so boring to live in Galbatorix's towers.
"Hey, my love." a tall young man with light brown hair and green eyes come closer and gently kissed her.
"Hey, Adrian." said Kyra and rolled her eyes.
"What's wrong?" asked Adrian and looked at her surprised.
"It's so boring here. You just leave me here whole day! And your dad is not helping!" said Kyra angrily.
"You know I have to train!" said Adrian raising his voice but when he saw Kyra's angry look, he continued more quietly "Is there anything I could do for you?"
"Actually…there is." said Kyra and looked deep into his eyes.
"Tell me." said Adrian, hoping that he will finally be able to do something for his girlfriend.
"I want you to tell to your dad that I want to help him." said Kyra and her dark eyes shined dangerously.
"What?" asked Adrian.
"Don't look at me like I'm crazy! I'm bored here and your dad does some interesting things. I could help him." said Kyra.
"But Kyra, please, what could you actually do to help him?" asked Adrian, showing his disagreement with her idea even more.
"Well, I'm a healer and that is useful. I could also help him to find out things from people. Actually I would do anything just to work something." said Kyra self-confidently "If you won't ask him, I will."
"Ok." finally said Adrian, knowing that Kyra won't give up. He went to ask his father what he thinks about Kyra's idea. On his disappointment, Galbatorix accepted her offer.
Kyra was standing in front of the half open door of Galbatorix's throne room. She wanted to find out what is going on. The Twins came back with someone, a young man with dark brown hair. They just gave her a twisted smile and didn't answer on her question who that was. Galbatorix didn't let her come in so the only way to find out was to keep standing at the door. Kyra could clearly see Galbatorix who was actually forcing himself to laugh. The Twins stopped using magic and the man fell down on the floor. After some moments he finally opened his eyes and looked angrily at Galbatorix.
"Who is that?" suddenly asked Adrian behind Kyra's back. She closed her eyes for a moment, turned around and gave him an angry look.
"Eh, don't scare me like that!" said Kyra and looked back at the throne room "Maybe I would know if you didn't come!"
"Hey, don't be so nervous." said Adrian. Now they were both looking at the throne room from the hall and Kyra didn't feel good with Adrian around her. But then Galbatorix noticed them and the door closed with a loud sound.
"You see what happens when you come!" said Kyra angrily.
"Oh, so it's my fault now?" Adrian said in a sad voice.
"Uh, don't cry like baby now!" yelled Kyra and rolled her eyes. He just looked at her and left. Sometimes they couldn't stand each other. Kyra was still in front of the door. Now she was just trying to hear something, but the walls were too massive. After some minutes, she heard a scream.
"Oh, great, Galbatorix is again torturing someone." thought Kyra and wanted to leave, tired of standing there for nothing. Suddenly the door opened and on Kyra's surprise, Galbatorix came to her. The Twins came out behind his back, pulling the young man with them. Kyra tried to see him better, but Galbatorix stood in front of her like he didn't want her to see.
"Kyra…you can do me a favor." smiled Galbatorix.
"What is it, my king?" asked Kyra, trying to discover what is really hiding under Galbatorix's fake smile and shiny eyes.
"Your first important task." said Galbatorix and this time Kyra tried to avoid his cold look.
"Yes, my king?" she said, hoping soon she will be away from him.
"Go down to the cell of my little friend and heal him. But just the wounds that could kill him. And be careful." said Galbatorix and put his hand on her face. His cold hand made Kyra shiver under his touch. She moved away from him.
"As you want, my king." said Kyra, ready to leave, actually to run away from the king.
"You can go now." said Galbatorix and Kyra immediately left.
When she was walking to the cell, Kyra felt the cold and the air did not smell good. She saw few soldiers, dragging around half dead people. When she was finally in front of the right cell, she told to the guards to open the door and before entering she took a deep breath. That wasn't really a good idea because she felt like she's going to threw up. Everything smelled like humidity and blood. She looked around the dark cell with torch in her hand, when the guards closed the door again. Kyra just placed the torch in the place for it on the wall and looked around again. Suddenly she looked at lots of blood on the floor and saw the young man unconscious on the dirty floor. His hair was wet from sweat and blood, his ripped clothes too. Kyra hurried to help him because his skin was so pale that she thought he is not alive anymore. She felt relieved when she saw his chest is moving slowly. His breathing was so weak and she just tried to remove his tunic to get a better look on the wounds. Finally she placed her hand on his chest and closed her eyes, whispering something in ancient language. The light shined through her hand and the wound was healed in few minutes. Kyra was surprised when she felt dizzy; the wound was really big and took her lot of energy. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and concentrated to find another wound. There were just two more dangerous wounds and she healed them. While she was trying to find out are there more wounds, he woke up and grabbed her arm. She moved away from him really fast, scared and shocked in the same time. His dark eyes had a wild shine as he tried to get up slowly.
"You shouldn't move yet." said Kyra, still looking at him surprised.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" he looked at her.
"I'm a healer." she said "But you really shouldn't…"
He turned around and put his hands on the wall, supporting himself, trying not to fell down. Suddenly he felt weak and tried to catch his breath. Kyra looked at his back and gasped. Even his back was covered with bruises and whip marks, she noticed a big white scar going from his right shoulder to his left hip. He turned around and looked at her.
"Will you go or just keep staring at me?" he said angrily.
"Hey! I'm not going until I'm sure you're fine." said Kyra surprised by his cold look.
"I'm fine! Just leave me alone!" he yelled, suddenly feeling dizzy and fell down to the ground.
"Oh, great." Kyra just rolled her eyes, feeling a little bit relieved that he seems to be just a normal guy and not a magician or something like that. She wasn't actually sure why Galbatorix told her to be careful. That made her more curious to find out who is he. Murtagh tried to get up again and finally he sat on the floor, resting his back on the wall, his breathing was really fast now. Kyra slowly got closer to him.
"Does something hurt you?" asked Kyra.
"And what do you think?" Murtagh looked at her angrily while some scars were still bleeding.
"Stop acting like that! I'm just trying to help!" said Kyra.
"Help? You are here just because Galbatorix doesn't want me to die for some reason!" said Murtagh.
"Probably. But how should I know? I have no idea who you are." said Kyra.
"Better you don't." said Murtagh and took a deep breath.
"What's your name?" asked Kyra "I'm not leaving until you tell me something."
"You're so annoying, you know? Why do you want to know so badly?" he looked at her surprised.
"Because I see you're not just anyone…Twins brought you here because you seem to be important to Galbatorix." she said.
"Yes…hard to realize…" he rolled his eyes and then looked at her "Well, if this is the only way to make you leave…my name is Murtagh."
"Finally a smart thing to do." she smiled "My name is Kyra."
"Anything else you want, Kyra?" he asked "But before that…you don't look like just a healer…you seem to be more important here…your clothes says it."
"Ok, you guessed it…I'm a girlfriend of Galbatorix's son." said Kyra, trying to make herself more important. But then she bit her lip, thinking did she say too much and will Galbatorix be angry.
"Wow, Galbatorix has a son?" asked Murtagh surprised, not expecting something like that.
"How could I be so stupid to tell him that? Galbatorix will kill me!" thought Kyra and said "Yes, so what?"
"Nothing. Just interesting. No one knows about that." he said.
"Soon everyone will know." said Kyra, always believing that Adrian will be a king someday.
"Whatever." said Murtagh, not really interested in stories from a girl in love.
"And now when I told you all this…I want to know who you really are and where did you get that scar on your back." said Kyra.
"Who I really am? Well, if you really want to know…I'm Morzan's son…and the scar on my back was the only thing he ever gave me." said Murtagh and gave Kyra a cold look.
"You're Morzan's son?" Kyra looked shocked at him. She knew a lot about Morzan but not the fact that he had a son. He didn't say anything, just looked away and stared at the floor. Kyra wanted to ask something more but the guards opened the door and told her to get out.