An: Okay! Yeah an update! For all my faithful reviewers that demanded I continue. Thanks to those who pointed out my mistakes. Hope you enjoy! Just to get this straight, I want you to know that the italics are dream and bold is dragon speak. Although I doubt the dragons will speak here….

Eragon was walking. It felt good to walk he hadn't done it in a while. A long while. He left the tranquility of his bliss to scan the area. His eyes were wide when he noticed he was walking next to puddles of blood. So thick and dark it reminded him of Dragon blood. He held in a gasp as he frantically searched for Saphira. His calls going unanswered, He rounded the corner and saw a heap of blue…

He felt a presence near him again and it was crying. They were deep, chest racking, sobs. He looked toward the body and there was his brother. His eyes red and teary. He looked up and made eye contact with Eragon. He stood up abruptly and gained his composure. He again for the second time, turned heel and left.

He was again walking along the pools of blood. This time they were bigger and darker. He tried to run but his feet stayed at their slow pace. He looked from side to side his eyes full of panic. Again he rounded the familiar corner and he again saw the heap of blue. Its body moved and…

He felt the same presence again that night. This time he dared not look at him. He wanted to savor the moment. As long he was by his brother he felt… protected. Then Murtagh begin speaking…

"I…I…I wish I never betrayed you…" Murtagh sobbed. "If I hadn't you wouldn't have almost died…you…you might not be…like this. Worthless and in pain…I just wish… that I had been stronger…"

"You were…strong enough…for me…" Eragon gasped. And again Murtagh stood abruptly. He once more regained composer and left. Leaving no trace he'd been there.

The pools were growing thicker and he was slogging trough than now. He wanted so badly to run but his legs wouldn't allow it, like this was a nightmare that never ended. He neared the corner and once more saw a pile of blue. This time though it didn't move…and it didn't answer his calls. Saphria crossed hi mind, but he felt not her presence.

He woke with again. He was so close to finding out what the blood and such was for, but again Murtagh's presence had awoken him. He kept his eyes closed and listened as Murtagh spilled his heart out once more.

"It could've been stopped you know. I could've stopped it. I should've intervened. I was the reason we almost lost you…I'm so sorry. I could've saved you from this pain…" Murtagh gasped.

"If you had you'd….be dead… and I wouldn't let…that happen." Eragon said, his fingers twitching.

The blood was up to his waist this time. He slogged through it, ever so slowly. He again rounded the fateful corner and yet…he saw nothing. Not even a spec of blue remained. She was gone, and he knew it.

Again he woke to his brother's sobs and tonight he wasn't going to sit and listen. He was going to take action.

"Eragon…I'm so sorry…" Murtagh said, tears rolling down his face. Suddenly he felt the weight of Eragon's hand on his shoulder. He gasped and his barriers collapsed. Suddenly he felt pain beyond that of any he'd ever felt rack his body. He lifted a hand and place it on his head. Suddenly the pain receded and he was left with a terrible feeling. "Is this, brother, what you feel all the time?"

"No. This is worse." Eragon gasped. His arm was killing him.

"Move your arm." Murtagh commanded.

"No. I don't want you to run away."

"But…"

"Tell me why… you ran before, brother."

"Cause…I was afraid that…you…"

"I would what?"

"Not accept me as your brother."

"You will…always. . .be my brother… no matter what you've...done."

Murtagh looked relived as he looked away and slowly moved out from under Eragon's weak grasp. He smiled and left Eragon like that. Eragon, too tired to move his arm drifted off into an uneventful sleep. That morning when Arya came in to check on him she was amazed at the placement of his arm. It was hanging of the bed.

An: Okay. I'm done….Yeah!!!! Sorry if the characters were Ooc. It's hard to keep them the same when their full of grief. You'll all have to wait for another chapter to see if Saphira's dead! Hahaha.

Preview:

Murtagh was missing and Eragon can move. (A little.) Is Saphira dead?

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