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Reunited
Story 1, Part 1
It was their second day in Teirm and Roran knew him and the other five Carvahall citizens that joined him on his trip to Teirm would have to get back to the rest of the village, after all Roran had told them if they weren't back from Teirm in three days they had to leave without the six.
Roran and three of his helpers Birgit, Nolfavrell, and Loring were in a bakery well Gurtrude and Mandel their other two companions went on a search for a herbalist by the name of Angela.
Loring was telling the baker of their need of a vessel or ship and supplies when a man approached Roran telling him of an auction that a man named Jeod Longshanks was holding for all of his possessions. Jeod was a very wealthy man, or at least he used to be. Jeod had recently gone bankrupt due to thieves.
Roran decided that maybe if they go to Jeod then they can a bargain on the one of the ships and supplies before the auction.
Arriving at the mansion Roran who was using the name Stronghammer was recognized by Jeod.
Then Jeod mentioned Eragon, Brom and a name Roran had never heard before, Saphira.
"Roran…Roran Garrowsson," Jeod whispered. "It's Roran, isn't it?" Jeod asked quietly. He showed no alarm of their weapons.
"How did you guess?" Roran said fully standing now.
"Because Brom brought Eragon here, and you look like your cousin."
Stunned Roran sat back down and placed his hammer over his knees ready for use. "Eragon was here?"
"Aye. And Saphira too."
"Saphira?"
Again, surprise spread across Jeod's face. "You don't know then?"
"Know wot?" Birgit spat.
"I think the time has come to drop our pretenses, Roran Garrowsson, and talk openly and with out deception. I can, and will tell you everything I know about Eragon's current state, as I have many letters from the Varden, the elves and the dwarves on what he has been up to, how his studies of dragon have been going. The battles he's fought, the people he's met. It wasn't until recently that I lost all contact with the people of the Varden, and the elves and dwarves. But only when say to my face that you are here on your business and are not working for Galbatorix." Jeod once again had a serious expression plastered on his face.
Roran leaned up against Jeod's desk and said clearly "If I ever see that man, Galbatorix, I swear I will use his own insides to strangle him!" Roan then backed away with fire in his eyes.
"Aye then I think I shall start from the beginning…the very beginning, the beginning Eragon knows not of." Jeod said standing. "You see Selena, Eragon's mother was in love with Brom. Intensely, but there was this man named Morzan, who betrayed the dragon riders, he stole Selena from Brom and impregnated her with her first son…" Jeod turned to face Roran, "Murtagh."
"Eragon has…a…a brother?" Nolfavrell said swallowing hard
"A half brother. For Selena escaped the clutches of Morzan. She tried to escape with the month old Murtagh but Morzan was too fast and caught her, taking his child and throwing her into a river. Now at the time, Brom was know as Brom the Great, or Brom the Teacher. For he was a dragon rider, and he saw what Morzan had done and saved the young Selena. Not knowing she had a child. You see Selena was too afraid to admit to Brom that she had given birth to Morzan's son, she could be exiled for that. So she never told him. Now the thing was that Morzan and Brom were brothers. It wasn't until four years had past that Selena was once again due to have a child, but this time not with Morzan but with her true love, who was currently on his way to kill his brother, who had killed his dragon…Saphira. When Brom hadn't returned in four months Selena who was in care of a two month old baby Eragon, thought him dead. So she took Eragon to Gorrow, not knowing where Eragon's god father lived, or lives, for he lives in the same spot." Jeod took a breath and sat down once again. "Any questions so far?"
Loring burst out, " Ol'Brom was Eragon's father?"
"Precisely," Jeod said with a nod.
"Who was…or is Eragon's godfather?" Birgit asked.
"Me," Jeod said with a smiled, "To tell you the truth I only met Selena once, and I was as drunk as a dwarf on a full moon. Didn't make a good impression I guess." Jeod said with amusement.
"Where is this Murtagh…I mean if Morzan is dead-n-all." Nolfavrell asked in a frighten voice.
"You would have to ask Eragon that. He was last to talk to him. Though I don't think Eragon wants to know where he is, Murtagh told Eragon he was his brother last time, and they both almost ended up killing each other!" Jeod smiled once more.
Roran was silent in thought. He had a question but he wasn't quite sure if he wanted it answered, it must have looked like he wanted to ask it because Jeod asked "Is there something you would like to know Roran?"
Roran looked up and nodded then everyone stared at him as he slowly asked "Where is he? Where is my cousin?"
Jeod opened his mouth to talk when a loud noise and a blinding light sent them all across the room.
Jeod was the only one that knew what was really going on. He could tell that some body was transporting something, no…someone into the study.
Roran had pushed his companions to the floor thinking Jeod had attacked them. Then he stood read y to attack when he could believe what he saw.
A beautiful girl lay in the middle of the floor. She had brown hair dark brown eyes, and then he noticed something. She had pointed ears…was she an elf?
Before Roran even noticed her stomach Jeod yelled "Arya!" and was at her side with one hand on her stomach and the other on her fore head. Then Roran noticed. She was pregnant.
"Is she an elf?" Birgit asked daring to get closer.
"Yes," Jeod didn't take an eye off her. "God, she's pregnant, and the father must be human, elves don't grow this much when they're pregnant! Unless there's more than one." Jeod continued petting Arya's forehead.
To Roran she only looked about six months pregnant. She wasn't that big. Maybe slightly bigger than Elian is. "Longshanks, she could be forty weeks pregnant, I mean she looks about six months, and if elves don't show that much than maybe she's farther along than it seems," Birgit at this point was on her knees beside the elf.
"I'm sorry, have you had children before?" Jeod said looking up at Birgit with hope spread across his face.
"She's my mom." Nolfavrell said slowly standing up.
Jeod looked at the thirteen year old and smiled. "Then can you tell me if she's in labor?"
Birgit nodded "Help me get her on the sofa," Roran stepped ahead and picked the girl up off the floor in a swift movement and placed her on the sofa. "Thanks Roran," Birgit said kneeling at the girl's side again.
While Birgit was examining the elf everyone was silent. Then Birgit stood up and said "She's 'bout three months from having a baby,"
Jeod sighed with relief. "You're sure?"
Brigit nodded again. She looked at Roran who was staring at the pregnant elf. "Who is she?"
Jeod looked up with a weary face. "Her names Arya, she is princess of the elves. But she lives with the Varden; the Varden is her home as it is to many people. And by the size of her stomach she is pregnant with a human. Though I know for a fact she always either with the dwarves, and elves can't conceive dwarven children, or with the elders, and they are all either married, or as old as she, and that is old. The only man she would ever be around is the soldiers, so it could most likely be a soldier…-"
Jeod was cut off by a small voice saying, "No it's not a soldier…It's Eragon." Everyone looked at the elf laying on the sofa. She rolled over and put a hand her stomach muttering some words in a different language. Then here hand lit up and everyone could see that she was performing a spell. "Why is it when I take a nasty, fall then get transported half across Alagaesia, he stays asleep." She shook her head. "Am I in Teirm?" She stood up and looked at all the books.
"Yeah," Jeod replied standing. "Why are you here?"
"Jeod? Jeod Longshanks, long time no see! Any Idea what I'm doing here? Eragon said he was going to transport me to…um…You know I can't remember. Oh Surda! But I forget why… all I remember is that Murtagh had he imprisoned in the ra'zac lair. And he transported me back and got the other three prisoners on Saphira and flew away. He killed one ra'zac, it was injured already. Ay, 'oo you be?" She said pointing at the villagers who were huddled in the corner, well with the exception of Roran.
Jeod stood up and walked to Arya he held her face with one hand and opened one of her eye lids with the other. "Rolf!" He called to his butler.
The elderly man walked in surprised to see that the four chairs that the villagers once sat on were thrown to the ground. Rolf shook his head and said "Yes sir?" obviously confused by the elf.
"Get me some medicine called 'Sawyers Glaze,'" Jeod stepped away from Arya and looked at the butler "now." He said sternly when the butler stared the elf.
Jeod made Arya sit on the sofa while he waited for the medicine. "What's wrong with her?" Roran said after he finally took in what he had learned about Eragon, and that Eragon had most likely already saved his beloved Katrina.
"She just got a little side effect from a wrong transportation. That's when he says a certain place but she went to the place or in this case person, he was thinking instead. Obviously Eragon was thinking of you, Roran, when he transported her here."
"How do you know?"
"Because I could tell by the expression on your face that you heard the noise, we didn't. Now tell me Roran what is it in the ra'zac's lair that reminds Eragon of you?" Jeod asked as Rolf passed him the medicine.
"My beloved Katrina, was taken by the ra'zac, he might have found her and she mentioned me or he saw her and she reminded him of me, or something."
"Ur, Roran?" Arya asked gaining soberness.
"Yes, and you're pregnant with my cousins baby?"
"Yeh," She said with a bit of a giggle.
"Rolf," Jeod asked the butler who was still standing in the room "Could you take Lady Arya upstairs to the first room on the right. Rest now Arya I shall send word to Eragon. Rolf, she has been drugged so make sure she doesn't fall." Jeod said helping the elf up and letting Rolf lead her up stairs.
"I thought you said that she wuz 'aving side effects?" Birgit asked stepping forwards.
"Yes well I can't very well say she transported here by magic, I mean my wife doesn't even know that I helped Brom with the Varden, and that I'm still an agent."
"Is that why all your ships have been sunk, because Galbatorix knows that you are an agent?"
"Yes. Now you may take any room you like upstairs, except the first room on the left, that is Lady Arya's," Jeod said gesturing for them to leave him be.
Roran waited until his companions had all left the room and then closed the door turning around to face Jeod who didn't look at the least bit surprised. "He was with the elves last time I got a letter, but if he was at the ra'zac's lair then he's probably already in Surda. Or maybe even on his way here. Any more questions I can answer?" Jeod said with a slight amusement in his voice.
"Yeah just one, how does Eragon travel so fast?"
"Saphira of course!" Jeod chuckled slightly.
"Who?"
A/N: There you have it Story 1 part 1!!
