Thanks for the reviews! Just to let you know, Eragon and all them might not come into the picture again for awhile..Real short chapter, and couldn't think of a very good title so, oh well, hope you like it!

Nakia sprinted away on her horse. She didn't know where she was going, or even why she left, but she did, and she didn't stop.

He's an elf! He lied to me all this time! Nakia thought panickly.

She stopped for a brief moment and looked behind her. She saw that Aden had began chasing her and was not too far behind. Nakia quietly cursed and took off agian, but it was no use. Aden was much more skilled at riding and his horse much faster. In a matter of minutes they were side by side but Nakia didn't stop, hoping that she could eventually out run him, or he would stop.

"Nakia! Stop! I need to talk to you!" Aden yelled as they ran into the distance. Figuring that she could never escape him, she slowed up and Aden stopped behind her. He dismounted his horse and approached Nakia as she did the same.

"You lied to me," she said quietly before he had a chance to say anything.

"I know," he said, talking to the ground. "But I didn't think you would trust me if I hadn't and-" Nakia cut him off.

"Well you were right! I don't trust you! Not anymore. I was suspicious when you were just a human! But now..." Nakia didn't finish her sentance.

"I was just trying to keep you safe until you made it to Uru'Baen. I didn't know what you were going to do. I didn't think you needed to know.." Aden nearly whispered after a few minutes of silence. "I'm sorry." Nakia looked straight at him with cold eyes. After severel minutes of silence she spoke agian.

"Well what are you doing out here anyway?"

Relieved that she didn't sound as angry, Aden explained. "An elf by the name of Arya was captured while trying to go to the Vaden's hiding spot. I was sent to search the prisons and if I couldn't find her, I was to go to the Varden and report it to them." Nakia just stood as response.

Wordlessly she turned back to her horse. Aden thought she was going to ride away again, but she was just pulling out their supplies.

"What are you doing?" he questioned her as she began to build a fire.

"Setting up camp. It's almost dark." As she rolled out their blankets Aden began to cook the meat he had handed her. They silently ate the meat and cleaned up.

After dinner was done, Nakia layed ontop of her blankets and took out the sword that Aden had bought her and began to examine it. It was beautiful, and just the perfect size for her. The blade and handle were silver, but the outline of the handle was bejewled with tiny rubies. She couldn't believe that she was lucky enough to own something so wonderful. Realizing that the only reason she did was because Aden had bought it for her, her anger toward him soften a bit.

Once she was done looking at it, she shealthed it and hid it in her bag. She looked over and saw Aden starring at her.

"Thank you," she said, not knowing what else to say. He nodded in acknoledgment and doused the fire with a bucket of water he'd gotten from a creek not to far away. Nakia curled up in her blankets and starred up at the stars, not able to fall asleep. She looked over to see Aden doing the same thing. Apparently he couldn't sleep either.

"What was she doing when she got caught?" Nakia asked, the first words she spoke sense dinner. Aden jumped about, shocked to hear her talk but then quickly replied.

"You mean Arya?"

"Yeah."

"Well..." he started. Should he tell her the truth? He still didn't know if he could trust her. But he soon realized that if he wanted her to trust him, he'd have to. "Awhile ago the Varden stole one of the dragon eggs that the Empire had been guarding." Nakia interupeted him.

"Wait a second. Dragons? I've heard stories about them, but I didn't know that they actually existed!" Aden simply nodded and continued with his story.

"After the egg was stolen it was taken to the Varden in hopes that somebody there would become the next Rider. But the elves thought they should also be given a chance to have one of their people become a Rider. So then they came to an agreement. Each year the egg would be taken between Ellesmera, the elven city, and the Varden.

"The Queen of Ellesmera decided that Arya, a female, elven soilder, could transport the egg, protecting it. So each year she'd send her and two guards to the Varden and back, but the egg never opend for anyone. Then one time Arya was heading out from Ellesmera to the Varden, but she never came to the Varden. She just dissapeared.

"But the Queen seems to think that she was kidnapped by Empire's soilders because severl weeks after the Varden reported she was gone, soilders were found near Ellesmera. So she sent me out to search the prisons. That's all I know."

Nakia nodded her head. And began to lay down again when another thought came to her.

"What are we going to do?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I'm obviously not going to Uru'Baen anymore, but I can't go back home. I have no where to go," she said sadly. Aden felt sorry for her. He, too, would be depressed if he had been the only person in all of Ellesmera that had survied. Although, if Urgals had attacked Ellesmera, they probably would have been able to defend theirselves.

"Well...if you want you can come to the Varden with me, they'll probably take you in." She nodded, considering this. If Galbatorix really had been the person who set the Urgals on Yazuac, then joining the Varden was the best thing for her, and was the best way to get her revenge.

"But won't I have to go around all of Alagaesia to search the prisons with you?"

"Well, I don't think I would have to go to all of the prisons anymore. I think I have information that the Varden will want much more then Arya," he said.

"And what's that?"

"I think I know what happend to the dragon egg. I think that before she was captured Arya sent the egg somewhere, and it hatched."

"How do you know this?" asked Nakia, suspicious. Aden sighed, realizing that he'd have to reveal seeing the dragon that one night. So he told Nakia the story. She simply whispered, "Wow," after he was done.

"So it's settled, we'll head for the Varden," Nakia said as she curled up in her blankets, suddenly exhausted.

I'm going to the Varden. I'll battle against Galbatorix. Were her last thoughts before she fell asleep.

Severel hours after Aden and Nakia had fallen asleep, Aden woke up, suddenly alert. The snap of a twig in the distance had awoken him, and he was now scanning the horizon to see who (or what) it was.

He suddenly felt an arrow hit him in the back of his neck and he fell back over, faint from the pain...

The next morning Nakia woke up and looked over at where Aden had been asleep. But he wasn't there. Asssuming he'd gone to hunt or something, she simply sat up and started to roll up her blankets.

Severel hours later Aden hadn't returned to camp and Nakia had curled up in a ball, very worried. It was then that she realized Aden wasn't coming back.

Ooh...haha, well kinda of a short chapter...please review!