This one is a little longer than usual but it reveals a lot. Thanks guys! Hope you like it.

Luna

She looked up , holding her tears.

Ellor looked back at her, interested,"What did it say?"

"Oh...nothing, just that...that...we have to leave by tomorrow morning. It is no longer safe. My mother has probably left by now." she replied

"Oh...okay. Where will we go?"

"I guess we'll cross the Hadarac Desert and find my mom in one of the smaller towns in the Southwest."She said laying down.

"Alright,"he said laying on his bed.

It had been a few hours and Ren was still crying because of the note. She didn't notice that Ellor had moved his bed beside her and was gazing at her. She turned around and met his eyes. He smiled,"I read the note. It's okay..."

They both sat up and he put a comforting arm around her.

She wiped her tear stained face and laid her head on his shoulder,"Thanks. Your a good friend..."she said, closing her eyes.

He looked at her awkwardly. He jumped up and ran out of the cave, falling down.

She ran after him and knelt beside him shaking him,"Ellor! Ellor! Wake up!"

He turned over and laughed as she slapped his arm in a friendly way, laughing, knowing he had tricked her. He stood up and helped her up, too. There a eyes met again in the very awkward and embarrassing way. They walked back to the cave and she sat on her bed, not facing him.

"Listen...I-"Ellor started, but she stopped him.

"I know. I feel the same way, but...".

"What?"he said.

"Not now..."

She moved her bed away and smiled.

I saw everything.

Wyrda...Oh...Do you have a problem?

No...it's just...he doesn't seem right. you only met him a week ago.

But it feels like forever. And Wyrda...I'll watch him. You said yourself we'd be a good couple. I'll take your advice. Goodnight Wyrda.

Goodnight Ren.

She woke up the next morning and Ellor was gone. She sat straight up in bed and looked around the cave. She then ran out and saw his horse was gone, too.

Where's Ellor, Wyrda?

He ran off with Teneil to hunt.

But, why didn't he tell me?

Didn't want to wake you...Wyrda said neighing as though it was a laugh.

Wyrda! Stop that!

After the funny, yet embarrassing conversation with Wyrda, Ren went back into the cave and packed up her stuff, realizing why she was packing up a tear slid down her face. Her mother was gone. She wanted to kill them. Kill them all. All of the Shades and people who wanted her. They had probably caused her mother's death! And she didn't know where her father was. Was he dead? Had they captured him?

She suddenly heard footsteps as to Ellor was coming in and she wiped her face, finishing her packing.

"Hey, Ren! I caught some...fish...at the river...where you crying?"Ellor asked her, walking into the cave.

Ren wiped her face again and answered,"Oh no. My eyes are just watering. It must be the smoke from the fire."

Ellor shrugged and sat down, beginning to cut the fish with a knife, when Ren asked him,"Where did you get that knife?"

He quickly looked up at her, embarrassed,"Uh..well-"

"You got it from my boot! Why would you do that?!" She yelled at him.

"Whoa, Ren! You don't have to yell at me. I'm sorry!"

"How did you know there was a dagger in my boot and where is my bow and arrow-"she said, looking darkly at him"-how did you know?!"

"I...I...I just...used them. I was going to give them right back. I'm sorry, Ren."he told her lifting his hands up in innocence.

"You...you...How did you know how to use them?" she asked him in a more calm voice. She didn't feel like being close with him, much like taking him along with her to...where was she going?

"My uncle taught me when I was younger,"he said, toughing her hand to try and comfort her.

She pulled her hand away and took the dagger. She picked up the rest of her stuff and her bow and arrow. She walked out in a huff. Ellor ran after her"Look, Ren. Please don't be mad at me! I'm really sorry."

She started strapping her stuff to Wyrda,"No one would dare touch my weapons! Even my friends. They are weapons that have been passed down generations and if they end up in the wrong hands...something terribly wrong could happen. Even Wyrda knows that and he's a horse! Next time you want to "use" something of mine, ask me, even if I'm asleep and a punch you in the gut because I think you're some spy..."

"Okay...I get it. Man, so your weapons are like sacred?"Ellor said looking own anxiously.

Ren smiled for the first time and nodded. Ellor tried to put a hand on her shoulder

but she ran into the cave, making sure everything was packed. Ellor had already packed his stuff. She kicked dirt into the fire to put it out and then she walked out.

They jumped onto their horses and started out of the mountains and towards the Hadarac Desert. Ellor was looking at her in amazement and she blushed. Why was he like this? He seemed too...perfect. But he wasn't. How did he know where those weapons were and why did he use them? She was getting the idea that he didn't go out just to get fish.

It had been three days and they had been into the desert sun for a long time. Water was getting low and the weren't sure what to do. They stopped for a while near some weird-looking plants.

Ren got off the horse and started a fire to start cooking the food. She looked up at Ellor who was getting off Teneil and smiled at him.

"So...what is on the menu today?"Ellor asked sitting down beside her.

"So far...the last of the fish. Hey Ellor, I just realized something!" Ren answered him cutting up the fish.

"What?"Ellor asked, laying down and looking at the few clouds in the sky.

"We haven't seen Vondr for a few days. Where'd he go?" Ren quickly exclaimed, leaving the pot on the fire.

Ellor sat up as quickly as he layed down,"Yeah. Where did that little guy go?"

"Well wherever he is, I hope he'll be okay..."she said, sighing.

He put a comforting hand on her shoulder and smiled,"He'll be alright believe me..."

She looked at his hand and then at him. She blushed and put her head down thinking. She closed her eyes.

Ellor was so perfect. He made her feel special in a way no one could. She was really beginning to like him. How was it some stable boy could be so...lovelt. He was really fun to talk to and made her laugh.

She laughed at him, dropping his fish and when he told the very unique story at night. She laughed when he messed up and when he didn't.

It was time to go to bed and she let the fire go out on itself. She sat on her bed, taking out an old hairbrush and brushing her black, messy hair. When it was all staightened out she laid down and then Ellor laid on his bed, beside her.

"Hey...why are you so giggly?"he asked.

"You're so funny. You mess up all the time and tell the craziest stories." Ren answered.

Ellor laughed and she laughed with him. He put his hand behind his head and told her,"I guess I do..."

She laughed at him and blushed. He was staring at her. She turned away from him, thinking.

"You are so beautiful..."Ellor said suddenly.

Ren turned back around,"It's only because I'm so in love..."she said smiling.

She fell asleep in deep thought.

Suddenly, she was awoken by a shadowy figure. He was a man, none the less. He had a knife in his hand and was speaking a language she did not know of, but she knew he wanted her to come with him. Ellor was gone and the horses where being held down by seven men, more on Wyrda because he was so big.

The man grabbed her and chained her hands, picking her up and putting her in a carriage pulled by four other horses. Within a few seconds, she blackened out.

She awoke in a dark, rusty cell that smelt of corpses.She was chained to the wall and her clothes were ripped. She weakly put her head up and saw shades guarding the cell. They looked at her and laughed. She put her head back down and silently wished she were dead.

Suddenly, the cell door opened and one of the Shades came in.

"You are ordered to come to the main hall to see second in command,"it said, unlocking the chains and she weakly stood up. It put a bag over her head, so for the last minutes, she was lead, blindly to this main hall.

The bag was pulled off her head and she looked up to see the main hall. The main color was grey, but everything was polished and clean. She did not feel worthy to be in this room. At the end of the room was a desk and a man sitting behind it. He had long, red hair and she had the impression he had been awake for quite a few days, for the bags under his eyes. his clothes were a combination of purple, gold, and red colors.

He looks like a king, Ren thought.

"Welcome, Ren. We've been expecting you. Your father is here, too."the man said waving his hands and a door opened. A few more Shades came in with a man who looked nothing of her father. He looked drugged and had bags under his eyes. His clothes were ripped too.

"Father! "Ren said. The words came out before she could think.

The shade beside her kicked her and she fell to her knees, breathing heavily. She put her head down.

Eragon was put beside her and she hugged him. He smiled weakly. Their hands were quickly tied behind their backs.

The man laughed again and waved his hand again as a young man, a little older than her came in. He had aubern hair and his clothes were no longer shaggy and torn at places.

"Ellor?! You're...you're a...a spy?!"Ren screamed, as she began to cry silently. She didn't understand. How could he be a traitor? And how could they have made her father so weak.

Ellor laughed,"Yes, I am. I was sent to Hedarth from recent reports that you were heading there. I killed the stable boy and became the new one-,"he walked over to her and pulled her head up by her hair threw her down, for she was too weak to fight,"-as soon as I saw you, I knew you were you, because of your beauty. I knew exactly how to befriend you. I played a silly boy with a crush. I had a group of Urgals hide in shed and at night, they attacked. I had to have some of the fun so I killed Katrina's mother-,"Ren tried to hit him with her head, but a shade held her back,"-and then I went up to get you. I knew you would use up the little energy you had on those Urgals and when you were unconsience, I put a spell on Katrina, making her think that that witch, Elga, was her aunt Kanel. I sent my hawk to inform Elga we were coming. Katrina's probably dead now. As far as your mother, I killed her with a potion and that hawk, was mine, that came in. And as far as Vondr is, he is a human. He is the one that told me where you were. And now we're here."

A young elf came in, his hands tied, looking as bad as Eragon. He looked at Ren weakly. She smiled at him.

Pointing to the elf, Ellor told her,"This is Verdan, a friend of mine. You see, he, on the other hand, likes you very much. And you ask yourself"How would he know me?" and I tell you he was a spy, for your father, to protect you. And I found him by Vondr, too."

"Are you going to kill us?"she yelled.

"Oh yes, eventually. But for now, I want to have some fun."he told her laughing.

He pointed to the shades and they took her and the elf out.

"Don't hurt my father!!!!"she yelled as the doors shut to the large room.

She was taken to a different cell this time. It was Verdan's cell. They chained her up to the right wall of the cell and chained Verdan to the opposite. They soon left, laughing at the two.

"You know that crud Ellor said about me liking you wasn't true."Verdan told her. She realized his eyes were very dark and his face shadowy.

"Oh..yeah..sure..."she said, forcing a small smile,"so...how did you meet my father?"

"I'm sure where ever you live, it's all smiley and friendly, but I'm not from there so don't even think I'll be all nice to you."he said.

"Fine,"she almost yelled,"I want to kill them all! Especially Ellor...how could he do that?!"

She decided the best thing right now was to sleep and gain energy. So she did just that, though it did no good. When she woke up, he was staringat her, not like Ellor, but in a misterious way. She couldn't interpret it. She was worse than before and aching all over.

"It's been three hours,"he told her.

"You've been awake all this time?" she said looking up at him.

He smirked,"I don't sleep much."

She looked around the cell. There wasn't much in it. She looked at Verdan. He seemed like he was a very strong soldier and was very loyal to her father. She liked him, but not at all in the way that she had loved Ellor. The pain he had caused her was still there. She couldn't bare to think about it.

"So we'e just gonna die?" she asked, watching him lift his face up to look her.

He grimaced,"I guess so..."

"But...aren't we gonna like fight and escape or something?"she said, a frown taking the place of what was a second ago, a smile.

"Nope,"he replied. Then he smirked. She had no idea why and she began to get very irritated with him.

"You're pathetic!"The words slipped out. She looked down, scared of the next words to be put out into the air from him.

He didn't look angry but simply replied,"No, you're just stupid and aren't thinking."