Chapter 1: A new rider?

My eyes shot open and I looked around my bed room, I sighed and got out of bed rubbing my eyes.

I looked in the mirror at myself, while brushing my hair, it was the only girly thing I've ever do.

My long brown hair fell to my hips, and the bangs almost covered my grey eyes. I put on my long sleeve white blouse, with a leather vest over it, fallowed by a black skirt with a rip down the side and a pair of short underneath hardly noticeable by the skirt covering it by an inch. I sighed and went out of my room into the the kitchen. It was a very same home, where I live with my cousin Katrina and uncle Sloan.

Katrina was the first to talk. "Hi, Sorrow." I hated my name but at the same time I liked it, I just don't like the meaning of it. Sloan just acted like himself, completely ignoring me, I swear he hates me.

"Hi Katrina; hi Sloan." I smiled happily and sat down at the table. Sloan put food on my plate and started eating his food, without even saying hello.

I started eating my food then stood up going outside, Katrina fallowed me. "Hey, I need to tell you something, promise me you won't tell Sloan." She looked at me with hopeful eyes.

"Um sure, what you want to tell me?" I stopped walking and let her catch up.

"You know Roran, right?" I nodded, "Good, I need you to give him this letter for me, I can't go cuase father will know if I went there but he doesn't care if you do." She handed me a folded up letter and looked around her quickly. "Hurry before Sloan comes." She headed back into the house smiling and I started my way out of Carvahall.

I made it to Garrow's home and knocked on the door, and Garrow answers the door. "Hello."

"Is Roran here by any chance?" I said looking around the place, it was a usual farmers home, it had a homey feeling that I loved, way better then the hostel environment I lived in my hole life, only a few places I felt safe being in and this is one of them.

"No he's not, why?" He looked at a letter clutched in my hands.

"Can you give this to him," I handed him the letter. "It's from Katrina; so Eragon's out hunting?"

He tokethe letter from my hand and nodded briefly. "Ya, he left earlier on, he wont be back for a while." I nodded and started on my way back to town. On the way there I saw a few of the guards walking around the village. I hated those people so much, always pestering the villagers. But we have no one to blame but the king.

I walked past Sloan's meat shop to see him enraged, he saw me and gave me an evil glare. I shivered and walked in, knowing I missed the starting hours of helping him. He put down his meat cleaver and walked over to me. "Why weren't you here on time?"

I had to lie to him; to save Katrina from getting in trouble, and Roran. One of the guards stopped me and asked me where a villager was, so i pointed them in the right direction." I smiled as Sloan study my words carefully.

"Your lieing; I can tell!" I knew what this meant; no food for two days. "Don't expect I'm letting you sleep in my house too if your not going to pay for your stay. Now get! Don't come back till tomorrow."

I ran out of the store and down the street, I stopped and toke a few breathes before I looked around. All the foods were out of my price range, I only had a little bit of money. Wait Brom had a few chickens maybe I can get one from him. I made it around the corner where Brom's place was, when I saw a few guards taking away his chickens.

I sighed, "Just great, now I'm going to have to go out of town for food. I saw Eragon walking away with meat, and my stomach growled. He also had a giant blue stone, but it looks more like an egg. "I'm so starved.

I shock the thought of foodand eating from my head and started heading out of town, I was certainly not coming back tomorrow either, he finally got his excuse for me not to come back; but I will when I feel like it.

I went deep into the woods trying to find the cave I use to go to when I was a were child. My mom use to live in Carvahall before she died and I had to live with Sloan, he forbid me from going to the Spine and out of town, but I would sneak out here and try to find it; but I never could.

I searched for hours upon hours before I found it. The cave looked as beautiful as ever, a small water hole that led to another part deeper in the cave was still there; I think it got a little bigger too. There were sharp rocks lining the sides of the cave and the roof of it too. A small rock smooth enough to sit on and use as a chair was still there. But the only thing that changed was that there was a shiny white stone, same size as Eragon's stone near the water hole.

I walked over to it and picked it up, examining it from all angles, all I could tell was that it was hallow on the inside, making a loud but soothing noise when I hit it. I wanted to put it down but it was like I couldn't. I patted the stone before I set it down beside me; laying down I looked outside, tomorrow I was going hunting.

I feel asleep with the stone in my arms, and woke up starving. "Great." I got up and put the rock down beside a sharp stone and walked out of the cave. I picked up a sharp stick that was good enough to be a spear; and started hunting.

I was walking for hours on the outskirts of Carvahall when I finally saw a deer, I crouched down and slowly crept towards it. The tall grass covered most of me keeping me hidden from the deer. I got close enough that the stick would be able to pierce it's flesh. I toke one more step and raised up out of the grass and stabbed it in the back. It yipped and started running, I fallowed closely behind it, jumping on it, it feel to the ground as I toke one more stab at it in the head.

It slowly stopped moving as I got up, holding the deer as I toke it back to the cave. The stone was still there and I smiled happily. I shivered, it was getting cold, I need to get a fire started soon. (I grabed some wood from a near by tree and stacked them all up together. I rubbed to sticks together for awhile till it finally started a fire. I sat back cooking the deer I just hunted.

I looked at the white stone, it was all dirty, I think it could use a wash. I started washing the stone in the water hole as the deer was cooking at the fire. I smiled and I should head back to Carvahall tonight, who knows Sloan might let me in the house. After I ate diner I grabbed the egg and started heading back to Carvahall to see Sloan, and Katrina.

I got back to Sloan's meat shop to here him talking, I held the stone very close to me as I listened in. "No, don't hurt Katrina" I heard some weird voices, I couldn't tell what they were saying. "The stone, Eragon has it, he lives outside of Carvahall." I then saw Sloan leaving in a hurry back to his house.

I turned my head around the corner and saw to figures one taller then the other one, I couldn't see that well with the lighting. One looked in my direction and I went back to hiding. The firgures left and I sighed.

"Now what?" I started thinking for a minute then stood up, I was going to fallow them.