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DISCLAIMER: I DONT OWN THESE CHARACTERS, NEVER WILL!
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"Stop it! Stop this game! I am NOT one of mages who you push around, I'm 16! I can't
even use magic!"
"You will do this now!"
She ran towards the door her father close behind.
"You are half elf and the daughter of the most powerful man in Alagaesia! How can you
not be able to use magic?"
He slapped her hard across the face and grabbed her wrist, his fingernails dug into her
skin, drawing blood. Pain shot through her arm and she kicked him really hard in the leg
and ripped her arm away from him.
"I just can't!" she shouted and slammed the hall door in his face. Realizing what she had
done, she ran. She soon heard the door to the mages wing open and close again and the
footsteps of King Galbatorix of Alagaesia, her father, following her. She ran faster and faster trying to get rid of him, her long, curly golden hair whipped her face while her deep hazel eyes were intent on
reaching a safe haven. She turned a corner and was unexpectedly pulled into the wall. She tried to scream but was muffled by a rough hand then was pulled so far back she thought she went through the
wall but when a piece of wall closed in front of her she realized she had been taken into a secret room. She tried to she the features of the room but, with only a few stubs of candles to light it, this was
very hard to do. The person released their soft-but-strong grip on her.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" A deep voice from behind her said. She
turned around and saw a man standing in front of her with dark brown hair and a fierce
expression on his face.
"I should be asking you the same question?" he took a long pause.
"My name is Murtagh, and I live here. What about you?"
"Kaily and I live here to with my father" she replied hesitantly.
"Father?"
"The…King" There was an awkward silence in which Kaily could hear her father pacing the hallways, searching for her. Murtagh stepped forward slightly so he could see her
better in the candle light.
"How come we've never met then?"
"I don't know?" Was the reply.
After a while the silence was un-bearable and Kai said some thing really out-of-the-moment "Can you help me"
"With what?"
"I need to go; I need to go far, far away from this place. Away from my father, away from this…this…feeling, but… I have never been out of Uru'baen"
More silence followed.
"I'll help you"
"What?"
"I'll help you"
"Really, I mean we don't know each other?"
"Why not?" he saw her bleeding arm "What happened?" he asked.
"He got angry. He thinks I can use magic but…" Murtagh, on his knees, had taken her
arm and ripped a strip of cloth from his brand new looking tunic to bandage it.
"You can't?"
"He makes me memorize the ancient language and…and… I can't say any more than
that"
"Why not? You can tell me, we're in the same position here"
"What do you mean?" Kaily was confused, she had just met Murtagh but felt like she had
known him before.
"The King is trying to make me part of the non-existent Forsworn, just like my father".
Kaily heard a name in her head and before she could think about it properly, she blurted it
out.
"Morzan" she said but then covered her mouth hurriedly.
"How did you know that?" Murtagh asked the princess who was looking for an escape.
"I don't know" she replied quietly, then looked straight into Murtagh's dark eyes and repeated in the ancient language, "I wish my mother was here".
Kai started to feel very sleepy and nauseous; her legs went weak and collapsed under her
body.
"Kaily?" Murtagh, shocked by this sudden change, knelt beside her.
"Call me Kai" she whispered, and then fell unconscious. Suddenly a cloudy figure
appeared in the middle of the small, secret room. As the figure became clearer, Murtagh
realized it was a woman wearing a long, white, silk dress. The woman spoke to Murtagh
with a melodic voice.
"What am I doing here?" she saw Kaily lying in front of Murtagh, "She… she brought
me back? Why did she do that? She could have killed herself!"
"But she didn't" the woman looked down to see Murtagh looking at her.
"Murtagh? You look different, more… grown up" Murtagh stood up looking bewildered
and from where he was, could see the pointy ears of an elf. "I haven't seen you in years,
at least 15. I was a friend of your mother. Where is Eragon?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You don't know yet?"
"About what?"
"I need to go or she'll die"
"What do you mean?"
"Goodbye Murtagh, Take good care of her for me. Oh and don't tell her about this meeting, please"
"Wait…" The elf disappeared.
Murtagh wondered what to do next, he looked at Kaily lying on the floor, she had gone a pale white. "What to do".
