The entire way there, Azeilia kept rolling her eyes and pouting, "I hate wearing this dress but my father told me I must impress the royal king! Excuse me while I vomit in my mouth!" she said as she paused and pretended to go vomit in the corner.
"Come on, it's not that bad, just a new look for you!" Kyana said, her face giving everything away as she once again tried to contain her laughter.
Zeil snarled at her mentor as she continued to walk in the dark halls. "So are we really eating with the king's dragon? Like no joke?"
"Yes, Zeil! Come on, Shruikan isn't that bad! I have known the King and his dragon since I was a baby! Wait a minute; you're not scared of the dragon are you?" Azeilia's silence answered Kyana's question for her.
"No-"
"Oh cut it out you are so afraid of the big bad dragon!" Kyana was grinning wildly at Azeilia as her eyes widened even more than possible. Azeilia continued to shake her head in denial as she slapped Kyana on the back.
"I am not afraid of the Kings dragon. I am not afraid of anything!" she boasted filled with pride as she puffed out her chest.
Kyana let out a laugh as she flicked Azeilia in the chest, causing the smaller girl to let out a slight whine. "Oh come on!" she whined. "Let's just go to this bloody dinner!" she grumbled the last part as she stormed off in the hallway.
Kyana trailed slightly behind her, as she knew that Zeil had no idea where she was going and might end up in the wrong place. Azeilia was a fast paced walker, that Kyana learned very quickly as she almost ran to catch up to her. Kyana smiled at a servant that exited the Dragonhold, she assumed that her father had them bring in the food for the feast. She caught up with Azeilia in front of the doors to the Dragonhold as Zeil gave her a pointed look. "Found it all by myself!" she said with a smug but proud smile.
Kyana gave her a fake smile as she but her lip to retain from laughing again, "Yep, all by yourself. With no help what so ever from any other person. Not even me, cause I did not help you at all. Nope. All by yourself." She said as she leaned up against the cold stone wall.
Azeilia smiled her grin big until she was able to put together Kyana's words. A scowl appeared on her face as she stuck out her tongue in Kyana's direction. "You are such a-"
"Ah ah ah! Wouldn't want your father to hear such language from a young lady of noble class such as yourself, now would we?" Kyana interrupted, placing a finger on her lips as she nodded her head indicating for Azeilia to turn around.
Azeilia shut her eyes tightly as she slowly turned around to see that the doors to the Dragonhold had opened and everyone in the room had clearly heard the two girl's conversation.
The King sat on his throne, his fingers brushing against his chin as he watched the interaction between his daughter and Azeilia. His beady eyes made contact with Kyana's as she gave a formal bow, addressing everyone in the room, "My King, I hope the evening has found you well. Great Dragon Shruikan, a pleasure as always to be in your presence. Lord Flemming, it is truly an honor to be trusted as a mentor for your daughter, she is already exceeding my expectations for her."
Azeilia's mouth almost dropped as she watched Kyana easily interact with the king and his dragon. She couldn't help but stare as Kyana approached the large black body of Shruikan and didn't hesitate to sit beside its body.
Shruikan didn't seem to mind the small teen's body as he even started to wrap his tail around her body in a protective manor. Azeilia gasped, it was like he was her Dragon, and she was his Rider.
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"We would like a room." A small girl said as she walked up to the inn.
"Of course dear, and may I ask your names to put on the register? And how many days will you be staying?" an older lady asked as she took out a large book and grabbed the bag of coins the older girl placed on the counter.
"My name is Grace and this is my sister Jeanna. We will be here for a week." The larger girl said.
The sisters watched as the lady found them a ring of keys and handed them to Jeanna. "You are in room 18, have a good-"
"Yeah yeah, thanks." Grace interrupted as she grabbed the keys out of the lady's hand and started to walk down the hall.
Jeanna flashed the lady an apologetic smile as she set off to follow her sister. Grace had already opened the door to their room and had flopped herself onto one of the beds. Jeanna sighed as she closed the door behind her and said a few words of the ancient language under her breath as she made the room soundproof so their conversations couldn't be heard.
"That was rude," Jeanna said as she sat next to her sister and lifted the spell that hid Grace's sword from other people's eyes. Around here, people wouldn't be kind to girls that arrived in their city that carried weapons. Seeing how woman would not be seen as warriors, Jeanna thought it best to hide her sister's blade.
"Well, sorry sis but I didn't come here to make friends and frolic in the meadows. There is a war going on and we are undercover. There is no sugar coating this, Jeanna. We came here to find her and bring her back to Nasuada, and that is what we are going to do." Grace said in a storm as she gave her sister a glare.
"Right, and Nasuada choose us to come and get her not because we are the strongest in the army, you know Eragon and Saphira could take us down, but because we are able to put aside our feelings and think everything through logically and do what's right. We are the best team for the job because we are able to balance each other out, with your physical combat training and my magical training. We have to think this mission through before we do anything drastic, okay?" Jeanna said as she walked over and looked her sister in the eye. Being one of the only ways to tell the sister's apart, Jeanna's dark brown eyes that she got from her mother meet Grace's stormy eyes that she got from her father that continued to swirl colors of gray, blue and green.
"Fine." Grace snarled as she turned onto her side. "It's been a long day, goodnight." She said, hinting that the conversation between the two was done.
Jeanna sighed at her sister's temperamental mood, knowing that by morning Grace would be back to her normal self. The long ride to Uru'baen had caused tiredness in both girls as the struggled on their third day without sleeping. They knew that they had limited time to get the girl before anyone was able to suspect who they were and why they were there.
Jeanna tried to calm her mind as she lay down on her bed. She knew that she had to go to sleep but at the same time, she couldn't help but wonder who was the other girl with her? That continued to be her final thought before she drifted into the land of sleep, darkness clouding her vision until she was soundly asleep.
Please don't hate me! I got to my hotel and was all ready to update this and learned that the hotel didn't have wifi! Oh how dare they! Anyways I had to wait until I got home to update and I am sooo sorry! Please forgive me!
But I went to that concert I told you about right? and OMG I saw 5 Seconds of Summer in person! I couldn't help but stare and be like, please marry me. Goodness gracious Luke's legs, Ash and Calum's arms and Michael's hair! It was just heavenly! And I might get to see them again next year on their own tour! If any of you guys like them or anything PM me and we can freak out about them together!
Okay, I'm done with my rant. It's all good.
We are almost at 30 reviews! Thank you guys so much! If we can get to 30 reviews than maybe I will give either a small spoiler to the rest of the book OR i will post a back story on two of our new characters (Thanks Dawnleopard and lizzielove13!) All up to you guys!
Lastly, I hope to update again by Saturday, a bit longer but my neighbors are getting an exchange student from Europe and I told her I would show her around when she gets here so I will try and update as soon as I can! I love hearing from you guys, and please tell me if I had made anything confusing or if I missed something! I love you all, my beautiful readers and can't wait to talk to you again!
