Chapter 3! Thanks to Elemental Dragon Slayer, and ReadingForHours for their reviews! This chapter is going to be a little longer, and here is –finally- Eragon's POV.
Eragon's POV.
She was so beautiful.
Even if he was exhausted by his travel he couldn't have let her sleep alone after the mood she was in.
So he stayed and watched her sleep all night.
She sat up on the bed, and seemed to still be the one he knew.
Her long hair was falling on her shoulders and in her back in a so beautiful and natural way that he couldn't keep his desire to kiss her perfectly made lips.
He just wanted to take her by her waist, and to pull her close to him.
He did none of that.
The words she said while sleeping resounded in his mind, and he couldn't really think of something else, like if fireworks were exploding in his head.
Little one, said Saphira.
...Yeah?
She's asking you who is training the riders.
Oh!
"Murthag." he said awkwardly.
Saphira was listening to their conversation through his own mind.
She thought he couldn't handle being alone with her after all this time.
Arya said something about the fact that Murthag wanted to stay alone with Thorn, and he replied automatically, not really listening.
I guess what two-legers women say is true. You male don't listen to them, said Saphira in his mind.
I cannot listen to her right now. She's just so dazzling, blinding me.
Well for a blind, you are quite watching.
He didn't reply, amused by that true fact.
She didn't realize, or maybe she didn't mind, that she was in a short sleeping dress, and by this clear and cold morning, the sun was passing through the window and reflecting on her and he could see her curves.
He broke the silence that reigned by saying:
"You haven't change."
A little smile ran on her lips.
"We don't really agree about that, but it's certainly good to see you again" she finally whispered.
"Why don't we agree about that?" he asked, confused.
She shook her head.
"Forget it."
He obeyed, putting that in a part of his mind so he could ask her later.
"Will you allow me to get dressed?" she finally asked with an amused smirk.
Don't say that! shouted Saphira's voice in his mind as he was about to ask if he could stay while she was dressing.
He barely restrained it, and left the room silently.
I should teach you how to act with women... sighed his dragoness.
Yeah, you, the dragon.
Well, at least, the dragon has a mate.
Cutting off her mind from his, she went to see Firnen.
He smiled.
Leaning on the wall, he waited for Arya to come.
This is curious. I've met plenty of women in my life. She's the only one to have this affect on me. I just don't get it, he thought.
Finally, when minutes seemed to be hours, she came out in a more appropriate outfit.
"Should we take a walk?" she asked.
"As you will" he answered.
They went out of Tialdari Hall, and walked together in a snowy Ellesmera.
"When did you arrive?" she asked.
Trying to not focus on her body near his, her shoulder almost touching his, and her hand brushing against his, he replied:
"Yesterday, in the after-noon. Saphira waited in the forest, getting some rest, and I came here. Actually, I couldn't wait to see you."
She smiled.
"But, you're making me confused. I thought you would never return."
He sighed.
"Angela said I would leave Alagaesia forever. But when she told me that, Alagaesia was under Galbatorix 'reign. Now, Alagaesia is not the same than before. So actually, I'm not returning. I'm just coming to a new Alagaesia, and my prophecy does not fit to this one."
Arya did not reply immediately.
"So you're prophecy is false now", she finally said.
"... Not really."
They stayed silent for a while, just walking and enjoying each other presence.
His feelings were stronger than never for her, and he realized sadly that she didn't even hug him for his return.
"Are you...really happy to see me?" he asked.
Startled, she stopped and looked at him.
The hood of her red cape giving him the impression that a halo of magic and mystery was surrounding her, she answered:
"Of course I am! How can you even think the opposite?"
"I don't know...I just –"
"Eragon! Did I make you feel, in some way, that my feelings have changed for you? Because that's untrue!"
"No, not ... not really..."
Damn. Always acting like a child. Good job man, he thought with bitterness.
"So what's the matter?"
He could see lightnings of anger in her eyes.
"I've missed you." he whispered, looking down.
He sighed. She would probably run away, and leave him to accomplish her tasks.
Suddenly, he felt her arms wrapping around his neck, and her body pushing against his in a big hug.
"I've missed you too." she replied in his ear.
He shivered, and hugged her back.
Tears appeared in his eyes, as he rethought of all that they did together.
Her scent of pines was almost drugging him when they finally parted.
She smiled sadly, and said:
"I should join the Council, we're going to gather, actually, we need to deliberate about some things. I may not be available until tonight... I'll ask someone to lead you to a room, and I'll probably visit you after that."
He nodded.
"Alright."
She left him there, and did the way back to Tialdari Hall.
Arya's POV.
How is it with Saphira? asked Arya to her dragon.
You don't want to talk about it, he replied.
Why not? she chuckled.
How is it with Eragon?
Firnen!
What?
Do you really think that I don't know your making such things with her?
Do you really think that I don't know you're in love with him?
Shocked, she cut off abruptly her mind from his.
She was in love with nobody.
How could she love again?
After the war, the blood, the torture, the death?
That was impossible.
Eragon was her friend.
He could have been something else, but he had decided to leave.
But now, he's here. For me, she thought.
Sighing, she entered the Concil room, and went to her place.
"Good morning, your Majesty" said the five Elves in the same time.
She had asked to stop greeting her in the formal way.
She replied monotonously, and started the proceeding.
Half day passed as they decided of the new borders of the elf empire, in agreement with what Nasuada suggested to her.
But a single thing was on her mind.
Eragon.
I've decided that it would be interesting if the story happened in one day. No actually, two days, if you take in account the chapter 1. So tell me if that pleases you, and review ! =)