Eragon attempted to raise one eye brow in a mysterious manner but succeeded in lifting two. "Anything you want to tell me?"

Murtagh looked at his feet noncommittally before bitting one lip a little anxiously "would you believe me if I said it was a coincidence?" he tried.

Eragon's eyebrows crept even higher up his fore head. Murtagh better cough up he thought angrily someone had a lot of explaining to do. Then again the dragoness in his arms probably also merited an explanation or at least an excuse instead of the silence he was currently providing.

"Thought not," Murtagh said looking up grimacing. "Fine Eragon, Vanilor...Vanilor, Eragon."

Eragon rolled his eyes; was that supposed to be an explanation because to him that was more of an introduction. Stepping forward he caught a glimpse of sunlight hitting the wine red scales an bouncing off. Vanilor was around the size of a horse and on his back was fastened a brown leather saddle. Vanilor's one eye that Eragon could see was a vermillion and seemed to follow him as if it had identified him or the dragon in his arms as a threat. His body was a crimson colour like blood and his wings were a burgundy colour that Eragon associated with wine but when a few seconds later when outstretched away from the rest of his bulk where a shade of auburn that Eragon recognised as being very similar to a girl in Carvahall. He was spectacular but terrifying Eragon thought stepping away almost self conscious of his long analysis of the red dragon that was undoubtedly male.

"Who are you?" Eragon hollowly. He thought he could trust Murtagh then he turned up with a massive fire breathing lizard.

"Your brother, Selena's son," Murtagh answered.

"No tell me the full story. No more lies, no more evasion just the plain truth please?" Eragon said almost pitifully cursing himself as he said it. He sounded pathetic but it was the truth, he was sick of these lies all the little things. Like even who was their father?

"I was born in Galbatorix's court it was like being raised in a nest of vipers the same people who may be kind to you one day would betray you the next and not even loose a nights sleep over it. Our father died when I was 3 and mother followed soon after leavig leaving me denfenseless. I was lucky you could say or ridiculously unlucky depending on your viewpoint but Galbatorix...this sounds weird but took me under his wing protecting me from all. The infant lord to a wide amount of areas held a lot of power and I idolised Galbatorix you could say; he was the closest I had to a paternal figure. You had Garrow who loved you. I had power hungry bastard who if he had his way would destroy the world."

"What happened?" Eragon asked. It was weird yes even he admitted that but it seemed fairly idyllic nothing which would have made Murtagh have to flee to Carvahall with a dragon and have nightmares that terrified to the amount that Murtagh had been scared by.

"It was four months ago I was just seventeen and Galbatorix came to my room and the naive fool I was believed his honeyed words and when he handed over to me the two gemlike eggs I treasured them. Hoping and preying one would hatch and when the ruby one hatched the next evening a shiver of fear ran through me. I then ran through the list of names I had collected from the tomes in the library and Vanilor was named. That's the happy bit done I suppose," Murtagh said grimacing. "Galbatorix came not kindly as he had done before and demanded me to swear fealty to him. I told him I needed to sleep on it; Galbatorix accepted it and that night I escaped by the light of the moon through my window. I don't know how I did it but Vanilor hid in my pack with the other egg and I fled terrified."

Eragon nodded before he realised something and exclaimed "you can help me name her?"

"Course," Murtagh agreed his mournful miserable face becoming cheerful rapidly. "Well there was as you want a female dragon Opheilia, Leonora, Mirmel, Vervada, Luneria, Solaris, Dimanda...oh and Saphira. Does that help I can't remember any others off the top of my head but those might help. Come on ask her."

Eragon looked at the dragon in his arms warmly he ran through the names quickly he almost thought Opheilia it was beautiful but it wasn't quite right Vervada again came close but wasn't quite it. Dimanda was nice but a bit tacky. His mind then went to the other gem like name Saphira which instantly he knew was it the second he murmurred it it under his voice. "Anything else I need to know," he asked Murtagh.

"Well you have telepathy well at least I have it with Vanilor and you can read other peoples minds." Murtagh stated after a minute or two of deliberation.

"You've tried?" Eragon said. It was the first thing that had come into his mind.

"Well...it was useful in poker enabling me to well...win" Murtagh said slightly bashfully.

Eragon face palmed, his mind was reeling from all this new information, while a small bit questioned Murtagh's morals. He couldn't quite grasp all this information he had been handed he was part of this massive order the names Murtagh had listed so easily echoed in his mind. For once he felt like something bigger than what he really was a sense of belonging. And his father and mother where dead a lump almost stuck in his throat which he tried to swallow briefly at least it was better than thinking they had abandoned him. Then his mind turned to the whole mind reading thing that sounded awesome extending his consciousness in the only way he could imagine.

Saphira he called almost from one side of tunnel to here.

Eragon

And there we have it another chapter so soon after the other but I had the time so I wanted to write this. Please Read and Review and two things 1) I renamed Thorn because how dragony is Thorn and I think my Murtagh wouldn't name his dragon Thorn. 2) will anyone here murder me if I don't pair Eragon with Arya because at the moment I am not planning on doing so. So review if you want your view to make an impact.

This is rather random but on topic with the whole murder thing but at school we are doing this game in which we literally have to both murder and avoid being murdered by people in the school which is totally terrifying and led to many people hiding in the bathrooms but its fun and I am proudly alive.

oh yeah and one more thing Luneria, Solaris and Dimanda are stolen from the series by Chashotgunn(i think that's how you spell it) the Bloodforge, Bloodkin and Bloodlines one because I wanted Murtagh to know more than 5 names so eah they don't belong to me. Just saying so no one accuses me of stealing them.

Morrigan :)