Okay just so you know I changed bit of stuff from the books. Murtagh was alive when the Riders fell. Just so you know.

When I was born my father wanted me killed because I was a worthless girl and not a boy and that all he wanted. An heir, a boy, that he could make a great ruler like him. My mother ran away with me because she feared for my life. She was on the run for over a year before she found a way to hide me without knowing where I was. One day when she was walking by a river, she found a small boat and put me in the bottom and set it drifting on the river. She hoped I would be found, cared for, loved, and protected so that I would live. She soon died and the secret of what happened to me died with her. She told no one that she had put me in a boat on the river.

Brom was the one who found me. He was with Saphira, his dragon, by the river talking when a baby's cry rent the air surprisinghim. He looked upriver to see the boat carrying me drifting along. He didn't know that I was in there at first but as I came closer Saphira grabbed the bow in her jaws and pulled it to shore unsure why it was just drifting along. Bromsaw me and lift me out of the bottom of the boat. The boat had a hole in the bow (because it hit a rock) and I was cold and wet.

I was alone and that meant I was abandoned and no one liked to find a baby abandoned all alone in the middle of no where. Who could not care for their own baby as young and innocent as I? Brom didn't understand how someone could leave me all alone to fend for myself when I couldn't even walk yet.

I stopped crying as he held me in his arms comforting me. He never had felt such compassion for someone like he did for me at that moment. My violet eyes looked into his and I smiled. He was hooked.

He took me in and raised me as his own. Even the other riders liked me and agreed my name should be Elonda. It meant River Child in the Ancient Language.

I grew up in a way most found perfect. I could dance and sing like no other. My hair was black and it grew long and silky. It never tangled so I didn't need to brush it. My violet eyes grew brighter as I grew.

When I was ten years old the riders gave me a big responsibility: to care for the eggs. They taught me the ancient language and magic. They wanted to teach me in case the impossible possibility of a girl becoming a rider happened to me.

Finally a girl did became a rider but it wasn't me who was chosen. It was a friend of mine. She and I had been playing when I checked on the eggs and one began to hatch. Most of the riders were okay with a young women taking up the responsibility of being a rider.

That was the first time things started to turn my life upside down. When I was in her room talking and laughing as usual we heard footsteps coming to her room. I saw she was scared and that worried me.

"Elonda I want you to hide in closet," she instructed.

Usually I'd argue when I was told to hide but her eyes told me to just do it. Something was wrong I could tell from how she acted. I saw Galbatorix enter her room through the door through the slit between the doors to her closet. I didn't hear what was said but it was obvious that Galbatorix was angry. He had lost his dragon a little over a week ago. And the rider refused to let him try and get another one to hatch for him.

I suddenly heard her scream and Galbatorix ran from the room. I opened the closet she was on the ground but she appeared unhurt. She told me she was fine just that he had pushed her over and I left after thinking she would be okay. The next morning she was dead and her dragon was also. No one knew who it was done by other then she had been stabbed twice with a large knife.

I never told Brom or the others what I had witnessed but I wish I had that was only days before Galbatorix turned against the riders and tried to kill them. Brom wanted me to run but I had to save the eggs. I had found a small cave nearby the day after my friend died and I took all the eggs I could carry and hid them there knowing they'd be safe. I had only the three eggs left to gather which I had hidden in a different place besides where they usually would be. I was heading in when someone grabbed my shoulder

"Elonda, why didn't you run when I told you too!" Brom said in surprise and nearly frantic when he saw it was me.

"I had to get the eggs to safety." I explained.

"How many are left in there?" He asked.

"Three but I moved them from there natural place so Galbatorix couldn't find them," I said hoping he'd let me get them before Galbatorix found them because they weren't hidden very well. I had to do what ever it took to save the last three eggs.

"Go get them and hurry. I'll wait for you here." He sent me off at a dead run.

I reached the place were I'd left the eggs and I grabbed them. I heard noises behind me and turned in fear. Galbatorix had his sword pointed at me. I froze in fear knowing I was either dead or in deep trouble. I was hoping he would let me go but then again I'd rather die because I should have knowing he killed my friend.

"You," I said nearly out of breath wishing my legs would respond to my commands to run.

"Good evening Elonda." He smiled. "Where are the other eggs?"

"They're gone," I said truthfully. Why couldn't I move to get away form him?

"I noticed they're gone and I saw you leaving with them. Where are they?" He asked.

I shook my head finally being able to move but there was no way around him. That movement only indicated that I refused to tell him anything.

He hit me with the hilt of his sword hard knocking me unconscious instead of killing me. Unfortunately he took the three eggs I had with me and left. I'm sure he killed Brom while he was waiting for me. I had been the cause of the fall of the riders. Why hadn't I told them about what I had seen between my friend and Galbatoirx before she was killed?