p style="text-align: left;"strongthank you for reading I have changed this chapter from being just about Eragon to Murtag and exploring some of what goes on in alagesia I hope you enjoy please review and warning I am horrible at spelling/strong/p
p style="text-align: left;"Murtag flew above the spine as he looked bellow he could almost see the red of the monsters following him they were few in numbers and he knew that he could defeat them along with thorn but he did not wish to endanger the lives of the people who now lived in the spine so he was luring them away to where he could safely deal with the creatures. The creatures were as big as a kill and they smelled even worse than one they were a dangerous foe that long ago he would not have been able to best but he had grown much in the past years now this fight was but a simple opposition to him and Thorn.
" We should land know and cut them off if we go any further we will I counter another village" thorn spoke through their mental link as he plummeted down and right before he hit the ground he swirved up and landed allowing murtagh to slide out of his. Sadle and prepare to attack. the monsters were quick they nicer lied him and thorn he was not expecting their speed they had eyes like that of a shade it isn't shivers down your spine two of the monsters lunged in and attacJed murtagh with their razor like arms he barely had enough time to block and after he did so he swept zarok through both of them creating an emince gash in their stomachs he expected the creatures to howl out in pain or collapse but they smiled wickedly baring their gpfangs from their disfigured and grotesque faces. Thorn was attacked by a number of the creatures but he spit out a large spume of fire in integrating two of the creatures burning the others Murtagh had been protected by his wards from the fire and all he felt was the heat on the back of his neck the creatures were frightened when he was not burned the spoke out in odd sounds to each other while they did so Murtagh took the oprotunity and and sliced their heads off in one swift motion.
" They are stronger than I expected" murtagh said to thorn as he cut another two creatures and they fell to the ground dead in a pile. Murtagh leaned on thorn tired it had taken more energy then he would have liked to deflect thorns fire. He knew that something was starring in alagesia what it was he did not know but it was going to be huge. " where you expecting them to be easy to defeat " thorn said sarcastically mocking Murtagh. He had spent many of the past years roaming alagesia he had not managed to see or speak to Eragon or anyone he had once known since that time he feared that they would still Cary hatred for him but he knew with what all was happening it would be important to inform Eragon or at least to see his half brother. The years he and thorn had not spent alone they would travel with people searching for similar goals it was rare but it did happen a few times. Murtagh wished dearly that his life had gone differently but then there were many things he would have missed he may have never had thorn or met Eragon. Though he regretted much he knew that his mistakes had made him who he was and he was beginning to know what to do with his life for now he knew the riders would need him. Alagesia would one day have need of him and he would redeem himself y doing good rather than creating pain he would not end up like his father and he would show people that he was jot his father that was his pupus now and he would do whatever it took to make right for his wrongs. no matter how long it took after all he did have eternity.
" No I was not but I was expecting them to be Moore like the ones we had faced before but these were different more powerful they are getting stronger" Murtagh said to thorn as he climbed back into the sadle. He was indeed worried at the thought of beast that were forever getting stronger.
" I do not believe that is the case I believe that we are the ones getting weaker " thorn said he was wise in he thought though it did not sit well with murtagh it may be correct as they had not trained in many years they had only faced challenges in front of them after all neither of them had anyone to train with it was not as if there were riders just roaming algasia. " eye you may be correct" murtagh said as thorn shot heigh into the air he had become much larger in the passing years he could easily travers a desert and fly over mountains. " but what is there that we can do we have no eldunare and no teacher along with no we're to train unless you want to go flying over to where Eragon is" murtagh said the last part sarcasticly but he had not caught his mistake until he had already given thorn the idea.
" Why do we not he is not going to reject us or send us away he did say that he would always except our help" thorn said his wise voic. Echoing through murtagh head. Murthagh frowned he did not wish to risk his brothers scrutiny of his actions or patronizing him for not ceeping up,his practice but what else was there for him the people of alagesia did not trust him the dwarves hated him as did the elves the humans set him as an outcast there was no where else to turn after so many years but to Eragon " eye you are once agin correct but what do you expect to do we do not know where he is anyway."
"you may not but I do" thorn said confusing Murtagh how would thorn had known when he did not
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