"You can do whatever you want but I prefer to look for a way how to get away from Galbatorix." said Murtagh and looked at Leonor.
"We can do that too, but we should also have fun!" smiled Leonor.
"As I said before, do what you want." said Murtagh.
"You are going with me!" Leonor laughed.
"No, I'm not." said Murtagh, little bit annoyed.
"Oh, yes you are!" Leonor kept smiling.
"You can't make me, I'm stronger than you." he said.
"Yes, you are stronger…but…you don't want that someone hurts me, do you? Galbatorix wouldn't be happy with your idea to leave me alone." Leonor looked at him. He rolled his eyes.
"Come on, Leonor. Don't act like a queen who can tell me what to do. You keep forgetting that you are not a queen anymore." he smiled.
"Fine, I'm going to the town. Just to buy some things. You stay here, using your stupid magic, and hope that you will see me again. Maybe I won't come back." Leonor smiled and started to run to the town.
"Eh, Leonor! Wait!" he rolled his eyes and whispered something in ancient language. Leonor stopped surprised when he appeared in front of her.
"That's interesting." she was surprised.
"You would know how to do it if you just stay with me and my stupid magic." he laughed.
"I don't want to know. I have you to save me." she smiled "Now come on. I need a new dress."
"What? Again? Come on, you have too much clothes! It's better that you get something for fighting. And dress is not a good thing to wear in a fight." he looked at her.
"Ok, I will buy that too. Oh, and a girl always needs a new dress." she laughed.
"That is not a good idea." said Murtagh but Leonor didn't listen to him. He just followed her to one shop in the town.
"What do you think about this one?" Leonor showed to Murtagh sixth dress she tried on. He rolled his eyes once again.
"Just take it!" he said angrily.
"No? I'm going to try another one." said Leonor and took another dress. Murtagh was walking nervously up and down the shop.
"This one?" said Leonor, walking in front of the mirror. Murtagh stopped and looked at her long black dress.
"Something is missing." he said and got closer to her.
"What?" she asked surprised and looked at herself in the mirror. He came behind her back and slowly put a red rose in her hair.
"Wow, that looks nice." said Leonor surprised.
"Can we go now?" asked Murtagh while Leonor was still looking at herself.
"Ok." said Leonor and wanted to go to change back to her clothes, but Murtagh stopped her.
"No! We are going now." he said and pulled her arm.
"Hey! Fine but let go of me!" said Leonor angrily.
"The store owner is dead." said Murtagh. Leonor rolled her eyes.
"Again?" she asked and they ran out of the store.
"What happened this time? You didn't want to pay for the dress?" asked Leonor when they were far away from the store.
"He looked at you." said Murtagh.
"What? You killed him because he looked at me?" Leonor was surprised.
"He liked you. The way he looked at you was…annoying." said Murtagh.
"Murtagh! Are you crazy? You can't kill everyone who looks at me!" she said angrily.
"Well, as long as I have to take care of you…everything will be done on my way. And I can't look after you if you are having fun with some guy." he looked at her.
"Don't act like you own me! I'm not your property!" she said angrily.
"Shut up, we're going to find a place where to sleep." he said and pulled her with him. She looked at him angrily and didn't say anything. When they finally found a room, it was already night.
Murtagh closed the door and locked it. Leonor was sitting on the bed and looking around. He looked at her and in that moment she looked at him and whispered something. Murtagh hit the wall and fell down. Leonor smiled at him and made him get up. He was surprised and then she pulled him closer and pushed him on the bed.
"Don't try to move." she whispered with a smile on her face "Our mental connection can be very useful. I'm using your energy and you can't do anything."
He looked at her confused when her arm went under his shirt.
"You will regret what you said." Leonor laughed.
"Leonor?" Leonor heard a familiar voice in her head "Wake up, honey, it's morning!"
"Diamond?" said Leonor surprised.
"Yes!!! Come out! I need to see you. There are so many things you need to explain me." he said with excitement in his voice.
"Sure! I'm coming." she said, slowly moved Murtagh's hand from her waist and got up.
"Diamond!" she said and hurried to hug her dragon. A tear fell down her face when she touched his neck.
"I missed you so much!" said Leonor quietly "I'm glad you are fine."
"Me too. But now I want to hear everything because it's very confusing. Thorn told me some things and it upset me. Are we on Galbatorix's side now?" asked Diamond.
"No, we're not. We just work for him now." said Leonor and looked at her dragon.
"What? I don't understand." said Diamond "What are you doing here with Murtagh? And I found out some other things you never told me! I want to know all."
"Ok. You deserve to know. Galbatorix planned it all since the beginning. He called you using my voice and let me run away. He knew that I will bring him Eragon, but after he got another idea. I accepted to work for Galbatorix to keep Eragon away because if he had all of us…it would be end of the world we know now. It's good as long as I get all I want and we stay alive. At the moment we are safer on Galbatorix's side." said Leonor.
"Oh, I understand now better. But what with Murtagh? You never wanted to tell me what happened before you ran away, but I found out that Murtagh was there. What happened?" asked Diamond.
"When you called me…I was little bit shocked and all. I didn't know what to do. Murtagh was sleeping next to me and I saw that scar on his back…I got scared. We didn't have time and I decided to leave him there. I think Galbatorix planned that too. It's terrible, Diamond, to find out that someone knows all you will do." she said and closed her eyes for a moment.
"Why don't you just show me your memories?" asked Diamond.
"Because of mental connection I have with Murtagh. We still don't know how it works…and I don't want that he or Thorn find out what I felt." she said "Be careful with all thoughts because Murtagh can talk with you like I can do and we don't want that he finds out some things, right?"
"Ok. But that means…you are talking with Thorn like you do with me." said Diamond, little bit sad.
"Yes, but I love you. You are my best friend and another dragon doesn't feel like you. You are special." she smiled at him "What was going on with you and Saphira?"
"Nothing. She just annoyed me. I was away from her." said Diamond.
"Did you see Eragon when he came back to Saphira?" asked Leonor.
"Yes. But he didn't tell me much about you. He was too busy with getting away from there with Saphira as fast as he could. He went back to the Varden." said Diamond.
"What?" asked Leonor surprised "Do you know why?"
"Because of Arya…" said Diamond.
"Oh." Leonor rolled her eyes.
"I don't like him close to you." said Diamond angrily, looking at someone behind Leonor's back. Leonor turned around and saw Murtagh standing there and looking at her and Diamond.
"So he is finally here." said Murtagh and gave a cold look to Diamond.
"Yes. That means we have enough time to come back to Galbatorix without hurry. Maybe find out how to get rid of him." smiled Leonor.
"True. But now send your dragon away with Thorn, someone could see him." said Murtagh and Diamond looked him angrily.
"Go with Thorn and don't worry." Leonor smiled at him and he got in the air fast.
"Do you think we could get away from Galbatorix without loosing the powers?" asked Murtagh.
"I don't know. Why? You want to keep the crazy voices in your head?" asked Leonor surprised.
"Not really. But I like this. You know, being stronger than everyone." he smiled.
"Oh, so you want to get rid of Galbatorix to take his place?" said Leonor and looked at him.
"Maybe." he said quietly and strange shine appeared in his dark eyes.
"I won't let you." Leonor looked at him "I will kill you before that happens."
"Why?" he looked at her surprised.
"Because we don't need another Galbatorix…or even worse." said Leonor.
"I wouldn't be like him. He is crazy." said Murtagh.
"Ok. Can we just concentrate on working on our mental connection?" said Leonor and looked at him.
"Do you think we can really control it? Because it happens just sometimes when we want it." said Murtagh.
"I don't know. It has to be something connected with our feelings." said Leonor.
"Something deep in our mind." said Murtagh and looked at her.
"The thing is we probably can't control it. I mean like last night…I was angry on you and suddenly I felt your energy in my mind and I was able to control you." she smiled.
"That's not a good thing." he said.
"Maybe we should just leave it. I don't want to risk getting crazy because of playing with our minds. I can't trust you. What if you are just looking for a way to send me those crazy voices in your head?" she looked at him.
"We can't do anything if we don't trust each other." he said quietly.
"And we don't. Never will." she laughed "It's impossible."
"Like getting away from Galbatorix?" he said and looked deep into her eyes.
"I don't know." she said and looked down "Maybe we should ask for someone's help."
"Oh, come on, who would like to help us?" said Murtagh.
"Eragon." said Leonor.
"Eragon?" Murtagh laughed "He can't help us. He is too weak."
"He will probably fight against Galbatorix, Diamond told me he went again to help the Varden. He will fight against us." said Leonor.
"It's your fault. You let him go." said Murtagh.
"So what? You let him go too." she said and looked at him.
"Whatever, I don't want to talk about him." said Murtagh, little bit angry.
"Ok." said Leonor "Where are we going now?"
"To one place with many books." he smiled.
"What?" asked Leonor surprised "Not books again!"