Flightless wings chp. Six
Once Murtagh had finished his tale, all was quiet. Then Eragon said that of course they would still help him. Both Eragon and Aviella could see that Murtagh was exausted, and made their excuses and left. Aviella accompinied eragon down the hallway and surprised him by saying, "Eragon, do you think that between you and the eldurnari, could you find my memories?"
Eragon thought about this for a moment then said, "it is possible, but first you would have to tell me what I did to make the eldurnari angry. And Saphira as well." Saphira's silence had hurt him most of all, he could still feel her emotions, but other than that she was closed off from him. A look of complete shock overcame Aviella's face.
"You havent heard them? But….." then she frowned and said, "May I?" Eragon gave his concent and waited to feel her enter his mind. After a few moments he asked why she hadnt yet entered his mind. "I'm trying Eragon, there is a bubble around your mind, I cannot penetrate it. Let me get the Eldurnari to help…" A few moments later there was a stab of pain in his mind, and suddenly his mind was wide open to the eldurnari, Murtagh, Thorn, Saphira, Naille, the unnamed dragon, and Aviella. Quickly he closed his mind. He kept the connection to the Eldurnari and Saphira open, though. He felt Umaroth and Gladr in his mind. Finally. They said. We havent been able to reach you for almost a full month, Eragon. Why did you not notice anything was wrong? Eragon was forced to admit that he had simply assumed that they were all angry at him. Then he heard Saphira's voice in his head, she said I too, am at fault. I assumed that you were angry with me, for spending so much time with my eggs, and ignoring you for a while. Not a second passed before the response came to Saphira, but I am not like that. Once I was, but no longer. And you are not the type to ignore me because you are angry. He smirked mentally you are far more likely to put me back into a humble position than ignore me. This resolved, and the connection between Eragon and Saphira restored and stronger than ever, a question arose. Who had covered Eragons mind? No one knew, but there were suspicions….. As they couldn't resolve this now, it was decided that they would try to recover Aviella's memories.
"I trust you, do what you must." Was the last thing Aviella said before she lowered the barriers around her mind and let them inspect her mind. Right away, the barrirer in her memories was noticed. It was a large, thick wall blocking off every memory from before when she met up with Arya's group. Gathering all of their mental strength, they rammed the wall. It held, but shook. Again. Eragon said grimly, and again they rammed the wall. Now part of it broke, not all, but a small portion. Then all of the memories where running through their collective minds, Aviella's memories.
Memory one: she stood before a group of spellcasters, a willing volunteer for a spell experiment that involved linking with a bird. Then something went wrong, one spellcaster was dead, and others were faltering, no longer in tune. Then pain came, flooding her body. The bird she had been supposed to bond with suddenly dissapeared, and then there were ripping sounds behind her. Pain in her back, terrible pain, then the moment it stopped, she turned. There, on her back, were wings. All of the spellcasters were dead, the bird was dead as well, though no body could be found.
Memory two: She sat in a chair, knitting. Before her lay the soothsayer, a dark haired woman on a stone slab. She was one of the soothsayers attendants, and she was on her watch over the soothsayer. When on watch, ones only duties were to do whatever activities you had planned, as long as you made sure the soothsayer did not hurt herself, and recorded anything she said. The dark haired woman on the slab opened her eyes. She sat up and began to recite, immedieantly the knitting was dropped and Aviella recorded what the woman said. She said, "three people, two on a ship called the Talita, two dragons circle in the sky. It is sunset. The woman and one of the men stand arm in arm on the ship as it begins to sail. The man still on shore throws back his head and howls." Then she lay back down again.
Memory three:back in the hall of the soothsayer, much later. Her watch had just ended, and while she was on her way out of the hall the soothsayer woke once more. This time she was shaking and Aviella ran to hold her down, while the other attendant stood poised, ready to write. The soothsayer began to recite, "The Silver dragon and rider, one of our own, another dragon and rider, both male, the goldens. Sun and Moon must work together or the newfound peace is lost!" then she sank back into sleep.
Memory four: she was in a small room. She was only three years old, but could talk and do arithmetic already. Though she was younger, she knew that this was a while after her memories of the hall. A man stood in front of her bed. "Grandpa, I dreamed of the pretty lady on the stone again. She said a different thing though. Grandpa, do I know this lady?" The man laughed, he was a gentle looking man, with white hair and a short beard. "You might have, my dear, before you came to us."his voice was rusty, but kind. "What do you mean grandpa? Where was I before I came here? I thought I was born here." The man smiled at her. "you have been many places, my dear. You were born here, but that lady might have been from your other lives." Aviella was confused. "Grandpa, no one else has other lives. Why me? What am I?" the man came over and sat nest to her. "My dear, you are a changleing, and this is you tenth life, this is your tenth home."
Then everything drained into blackness, and suddenly Eragon, Saphira, Naille, and the eldurnari were all back in their own bodies. Aviella was shaking, her arms where crossed over her front and she was rubbing her shoulders. "I'm a changeling."she whispered, hardly daring to believe it. Eragon shook himself and asked her, "what life are you in now?" immediantly aviella answered, "my fiftieth." Eragon was shocked. "How is that possible? And how do you what life your in?"
"I don't know how I know, and I think that I died early in several of my lives."Aviella said. "I think I am going to go for a walk now if its okay….." She left, and Naille followed her.
A last thought passed through Eragons conciousness before he began to discuss what Aviellas memories meant with the Eldurnari and Saphira, and that was that the soothsayer looked and sounded just like Angela.
Hows that people? Does that explain some things? And the moon and sun thing has yet to happen…. Also, the last sentence shows a little insight into where this is going… anything else you guys want in this? And what do you like/not like about my memories for Aviella?
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And lightningkid333, okay, thanks. If I don't, its not that I don't appreciate your offfer, its just that im too impatient to put it up. If you keep commenting and giving me ideas though, I will be absolutely thrilled!
Okay guys and girls, that's it for a little while. I need a few comments before I post the next update…. I have it written, just comment and I will post!