Ah! I forgot the disclaimer on the last chapter, but anyway, rest assured, that if I owned Eragon, Angela would have a way bigger roll. Also, it probably wouldn't be finished yet. -
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The sun was warming Eragon's face and making the insides of his eyelids glow. Eragon sat up straight, yawned, and stretched. He should have left earlier than this, but it couldn't be helped now. He rolled over. He fell. He was now face down on the floor of Angela's shop.
"Great." He groaned against the floor. What a wonderful start to what he was sure was going to be a wonderful day. He got up, pulled on his shirt, and yawned again. He looked out of the shop window only to see that Angela was already up, and writing notes on the table outside her shop, as she had been doing yesterday. Eragon stretched one last time and opened the shop door, only to be hit with a wall of heat, it was going to be a hot day.
"How can your shop be so cool when it's so hot outside?" He asked casually, shielding his face against the bright light. Angela looked up from what she had been writing.
"How impolite, to start the day with a question. I don't even get a 'Good morning' first. So do you assume that I am only here to answer your questions and not a human being with thoughts and feeling of her own?" Eragon was, at first, struck by her comment, but after he took a moment he noticed the good humour in her voice. She was teasing him.
"You started the day with an insult. We're even." Angela sighed.
"How I sometimes yearn for the dull witted idiot who stumbled upon my shop with his mentor, a young lad who had no thoughts of his own and was so very easy to make fun of. Now," She eyed Eragon with distaste, "I'm stuck with you." Eragon sighed and sat down next to Angela at the table.
"I'm not that boy anymore." Angela returned to her writings.
"I noticed." Eragon's ego soared. "You are now that same young lad, only taller. Now I have to look up to tease you. How annoying." And then it plummeted back down to earth again.
"I have to get going soon." Angela did not look up from her work.
"Correction. You have to get going, oh, about two hours ago." A look of alarm spread across Eragon's face.
"Why didn't you wake me up?" Angela looked at the sky and sighed.
"Because you looked so comfortable and I couldn't bring myself to wake you." The look of alarm on Eragon's face remained.
"Really?" Angela continued to look at the sky.
"No. I didn't wake you up because you can't expect others to do that for you. Especially not me." Eragon breathed a sigh of relief.
"Then, I should go."
"You should indeed." Eragon stood, but didn't move, he was pondering whether he should kiss Angela on the cheek before he left, it was what he had done at the Varden to say goodbye to ladies of the court. Then he noticed that Angela was looking at him. They stood there for a few seconds, just looking at each other, before Angela said simply,
"Don't do it." Eragon smirked.
"Thanks for your help, your advice, and the spare bed." Angela looked thoughtful, and there was a pause, before she said,
"I'd say don't mention it, but you just did. I'd say it was no trouble, but it was. So I'll just say that you're welcome." Eragon bowed and said, in a mock prestigious voice,
"Thank you kindly, dear lady." Angela snorted. Eragon laughed and set off running for the gates of Teirm. His journey was beginning at last.
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Sorry that it's so short! But at least it's something! So sorry again for the wait before chapter 6, but now I've actually updated two times in the same day! (Granted that chapter 6 was in the small hours of the morning.) Please forgive me, I'm in and out of hospital constantly. Anywho, next chapter up ASAP, free chocolate milkshake for reviewers! -Hands out chocolate milkshake in Starbucks cups for reviewers- Make me happy!