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Chapter 2:
Lash! Went the whip as it collided again with his back. The pain was mind numbing, yet it throbbed through his body and pumped into his veins. He moaned again as an unseen voice counted down the number of lashes. When it was down to ten, the whips got abruptly harder and faster, and he could not hold it in any longer.
'You bastard!' he screamed. And a laugh echoed through the cell. A cool voice replied,
'What? Can't the child stand the pain?' And the lashes became even harder as his shoulders slumped and his vision dimmed.
When he awoke, hours later, his cheek rested on the slimy surface of his cell. He turned his torso, but he could feel the scabs on his back crack, and warm blood began to trickle across his hip. He closed his eyes. Thorn? But he couldn't feel him, and his muscles clenched as he tried not to think about what torture he was going through, but as everything around him was quite, he could hear him howling in agony, and faintly hear his whines and roars. No! Leave him alone! He pushed himself up. He didn't care if he bled. And as the howls stopped abruptly, pain, excruciating pain tinted his vision red and coated his tongue in bile. And as he again fell into his never ending nightmare, he could hear a snake's tongue murmur, 'Shur'tugal abr Zar'roc. You will travel to the varden camp, and you will kill Eragon, and if you come back without his head on spear, I will put you into a bath of seithr oil.' He said this in the ancient language, and Murtagh quaked in fear. Now I must surely die. I want to die. And as thorn coiled his bitten tail around him, they both seemed submerged in a pool of grief, despair, and sadness. How could Murtagh kill a brother? And Thorn could only try to wash away the partner-of-his-mind-and-soul's pain.
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