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Chapter 9: Telulalah Lake
That night, Tamara and Brittany sat on either side of Eragon, who looked confused and rather frightened at having two angry elves on either side of him. Both Murtagh and Brom were sitting next to each other, awkwardly stoking the fire.
Tamara groaned. The prairie dog that was their supper was across the fire, by Murtagh whom she wasn't talking to.
"Eragon?" she said sweetly.
"Yes?" Eragon said suspiciously.
"Would you ask the man in black to pass the food?" she sneered.
Murtagh, however, had heard her, and passed the meat without comment.
Brittany felt she was dying of thirst, but the water was next to Brom, who she definitely wasn't speaking to.
"Eragon?" she said sweetly.
"Yes?" Eragon said suspiciously, feeling as though he had done this before.
"Could you ask the man in blue to pass the water?" she sneered.
Brom, however, had heard her, and passed the water without comment.
Tamara scowled, "Eragon's my slave!"
"Hey!" Eragon said.
"He's mine!" Brittany declared. Neither girl had noticed they had each grabbed one of Eragon's arms, and they were pulling him back and forth between them.
"Mine!"
"Mine!"
"Mine!"
"Mine!"
"Mine!"
"Mine!"
Brom and Murtagh simultaneously yelled, "GIRLS!"
Tamara and Brittany halted their tug-o'-war, and yelled back, "shut up!"
"Mine!"
"Mine!"
And so on and so forth.
Soon, tired out, the girls collapsed each still clutching Eragon, who was praying to whatever god that would listen that they would let go.
The next morning, Brittany was awoken by Brom.
"What?" she grumbled.
"Brittany, I am really sorry about everything. Starting with leading you on, and ending with the whole of the past two days," Brom gave a heartfelt apology. He held out a bouquet of what appeared to be silver roses.
"What kind of flower is this?" Brittany asked, taking the peace offering as a heavenly scent filled her senses.
"They're called Arget Draumr. Silver Dreams," he translated.
Brittany frowned, "it's a start," she smiled, and kissed him on the cheek.
Tamara was awoken by Murtagh sitting beside her. She groaned and turned away from him.
"Tamara," he said discreetly.
"What?!" she snapped.
"I'm sorry, for everything I've ever done to hurt you. That's the last thing I wanted." He held out a beautiful necklace made of silver and a sapphire crystal. It looked to be silver leaves linked together, with sapphire veins. "It was my mother's," he explained.
Tamara accepted it, then she hugged him. "Apology accepted," she whispered.
"We'll make breakfast!" Brittany suddenly announced.
"We will?" Tamara asked, pulling away from Murtagh.
"Yes," Brittany said vehemently, gesturing to her Arget Draumr.
"Of course," Tamara said, understanding.
"Pancakes!" Brittany exclaimed.
"I'll make the syrup," Tamara announced.
"Mrs. Butterworth?" Brittany asked.
"Psh, of course," Tamara said.
Soon, Brittany was cooking the pancakes over the fire, and Tamara was heating up the syrup, because cold syrupyuck.
"That was such a stupid fight," Brittany muttered to Tamara, angrily flipping a pancake over.
"I know," Tamara agreed. "I feel bad, I mean, in a sense, we did start it."
"Not 'in a sense,' " Brittany hissed. "We did start it."
Tamara nodded, "I blame beer."
"Me too."
"And sand."
"Same here. Sorry I called you a whore," Brittany said.
"Not like I haven't been called a whore before," Tamara said laughing. Brittany laughed too. Everything finally felt right.
After much preparation, the breakfast was ready.
"Where are we going today?" Brittany asked Brom.
"I plan to reach Tiidosten by nightfall," he replied.
"Huh?" both girls asked.
"It's a lake near the Beor Mountains. It's either this path or the Hadarac Desert," Brom explained.
"Tuh-tuh-Telulalah Lake," Brittany said. Tamara burst out laughing.
"Telulalah," she snorted. "It's Tiedostein."
"I like Telulalah better," Brittany huffed.
"Tiedostein."
"Telulalah."
"Tiedostein."
"Tiedostein."
"Telulalah."
"Ha! I got you!" Brittany exclaimed. Tamara became incapacitated with laughter.
"Actually, it's Tiidosten," Brom clarified.
"Tellulalah," Tamara and Brittany said in unison.
"Let's go," Murtagh said hurriedly before another fight broke out. He rose and helped Tamara onto Tornac, and Brom helped Brittany onto Snowfire.
Lack of water can do strange things to a person. Especially to two hormonal girls.
"Telulalah Lake, Telulalah Lake, I fell in love by Telulalah Lake," Brittany sang.
"One summer, I fell in love with a dove, in love," sang Tamara.
"I fell in love by Telulalah Lake. Strange things happened by Telulalah Lake," both girls sang. This singing went on and on and on until they actually reached Telula-I mean, Tiidosten Lake.
"Let's go swimming," Brittany said. Tamara was way ahead of her.
"Banzai!" she yelled, running and jumping into the water.
Brittany followed. "Come on Brom!" she cried.
"I'll just stay out here, where it's dry," Brom said.
"I don't think so!" she cried. She used a spell which pulled Brom into the water.
Tamara screamed as she was engulfed in a wave of water. She then spotted a vine hanging on a tree, so she got out of the lake, climbed the tree, and swung herself into the water, crashing into Brittany.
"I have an idea," Tamara said. "Let's play chicken!"
Brittany groaned, "I hate that game."
"I love it," Tamara said.
"Okay, but I'm sitting on Brom's shoulders."
"Really, I thought it'd be the other way around," Tamara said sarcastically.
"How do you play?" Arya asked, feeling miraculously better all of a sudden in order to play their game.
"In this case, there are three teams. One person stays in the water, the other sits on their shoulders, and the people on top try to get one another in the water. Last one standing wins," Tamara explained.
"Sounds fun," Arya replied, slipping into the water.
Arya sat on Eragon's shoulders, Brittany on Brom's, and Tamara tripped Murtagh into the water, and so coerced him into playing.
Arya proved a tough component, even with her random illness. Brittany and Tamara teamed up against her. Each took one of her arms with both of their arms, and twisted. She struggled; Eragon lost his balance. They both fell over with a tremendous splash. Tamara and Brittany high-fived each other, before they realized they were still playing.
They glared at each other evilly. Then they both tackled each other, and locked arms.
Brittany almost slid off at one point, but Brom adjusted his grip and steadied her. She retaliated by pushing Tamara with the help of a spell. Tamara went underwater, but since she never fell off, she was still in the game.
Both girls soon grew tired and began to make stupid moves. They locked arms once more, and Tamara said a spell which would've granted her victory, but she was pulled forth with Brittany's momentum, and all four of them landed in the water with a forceful splash.
They rose, all four of them laughing.
"We should get some rest," Brom chuckled.
After a hurried supper, they went to an uncomfortable sleep, seeing as how their clothes were stiff with wetness.
Brittany and Tamara fell asleep singing, "Telulalah Lake, I fell in love by Telulalah Lake. One summer I fell in love with a dove, by Telulalah Lake. I fell in love by Telulalah Lake. Strange things happened by Telulalah Lake."
"Very strange," Brom and Murtagh said together.
