Pippin's POV:
Pippin and his friends, Merry, Frodo, Sam and Sméagol were walking around Aberon in the early morning hours.
Pippin quite enjoyed walking and talking with his friends, although none of them, except Merry, had acted like they used to when around him. This bothered Pippin quite a lot because he felt like he was losing his friends, but this morning they all seemed to forget that Pippin was a dragon rider.
As they walked around Aberon, they spotted Gandalf sitting along with a female in a blue robe, who could be no more than in her late twenties or early thirties. The group quickly decided to go visit the two, especially because they had never known Gandalf to socialize with any people from Alagaësia.
As they neared the two, Pippin started to notice that the woman looked kind of like Angela, but he had never seen her in a blue robe before, and he was not quite sure why she would be speaking with Gandalf.
"Hail little Hobbits", Angela suddenly shouted and turned around, "what brings you up so early on this day?"
"Well we were just taking a stroll, when we noticed the two of you sitting here and we became curious", Frodo said to Angela.
"So you were spying on us?", Gandalf asked with a stern look that made the hobbits look down in shame, but after exchanging a glance with Angela he broke into laughter.
"Well if you must know, then me and Olórin go way back, almost to the beginning," Angela said, but as she looked on their confused faces, she said, "Olórin is Gandalf's original name".
"But you can't be more than thirty", a shy Sam called out.
"Oh, I am quite older than thirty", Angela said with a small smile on her lips, "in fact I am part of the blue wizards, which journeyed east never to return".
With that statement she gave a quick nod to Gandalf and almost danced away, leaving the hobbits rather mystified, and shortly after Gandalf took his leave as well.
The hobbits laughed at this and walked around a corner, where they found two large cats sleeping on a chair. Pippin and Merry started going towards the cats to pet them, but just when they where halfway there, a voice sounded in their heads. Why do you approach?
Pippin and Merry both looked around them for the source of the voice, but then the voice said again, Down here.
Pippin looked at the two cats and tried reaching out with his mind towards them, but when he did he felt a being that was not like any cat he had ever faced, and Pippin noticed that the cats were looking at him with very intense eyes.
Do we look like ordinary cats, the voice asked in a insulted tone, We are werecats.
"We have never heard of werecats before. We are not from this land", Merry answered.
Alright, but let me give you this piece of advice before you go. When people close to you die, their memory might still keep them alive. And with that said the cat looked down from Pippin and went back to sleep.
Pippin thought about the werecat's "advice" for a moment, but shrugged it off as he had no idea of what the werecat meant.
"What does he mean with, when people close to you die, their memory might still keep them alive. It sounds like he knows that people close to us will die?", Merry asked confused.
Just then Pippin remembered, how Eragon had looked concerned for a second, the last time Pippin had asked him whether anyone was going to die in the fight, and he felt like Eragon must have known who it was, but his master must have had a good reason to hide it. Pippin quickly decided that he had to ask Eragon about this again at a later time.
Time skip to evening
Pippin walked alone towards his master' study, he felt like every step he took brought him further away from his friends, but he knew that he had to know what Eragon would not tell him.
On his way to Eragon's study, Pippin had encountered Aragorn and Arwen whispering into the others ear, but Pippin had made sure that they did not notice him. When Pippin finally arrived at Eragon's study, he could see the light under the door, but when he knocked there was no answer.
Pippin knocked three times more before he decided to try and reach Eragon with his mind, but when he reached what he suspected to be Eragon's body, he only got a blurred image of the mind of his master.
Pippin did not understand why his master's mind was in such condition, but he had feeling about what might be the cause of it. Master are you alright and can we talk for a minute?, Pippin spoke from his mind, but when Eragon answered, it did not feel like his usual self and he somehow felt weaker, I am not feeling well today Pippin. Perhaps we can talk at the wedding or the day after.
Pippin knew it would be improper to intrude on his master, but he had to check that he was alright, so he climbed the wall on the other side of the study.
When Pippin reached the window, he saw his master sitting in his chair while waving a hand in front of his head as he studied it with a silly grin on his face. Pippin was now sure, what the cause of his Master's illness was and he knew it would be over in the morning, so he decided to climb down and go to bed.
Hi everyone, I will include the name of everyone, that guesses Eragon' "illness", in chapter 19. I have already begun giving clues to what is happening, but more will come in later chapters.
REMEMBER only to pm your guess to me as I do not want the fun spoiled for others.
