Sucked Away: Eragon

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Yes!! I could use my hands again!!! Finally!! It seemed like FOREVER!!! I hadn't been able to use my hands for a week!! If you think I'm being overly dramatic, then you go and try not using YOUR HANDS AT ALL in normal life for a week!! It is NOT that simple!! Ten tons of cloth wrapped around your palms, pinning your fingers together so they couldn't move so much as 1/10 of a millimeter. Giant q-tips as hands. *shivers* It's an odd feeling that I do not suggest to anyone. Sure, it's funny for about the first 30 minutes. And then your hands go stiff. They get really hot due to lack of air. Your skin starts crying because it wants to breathe. You want to take the wrappings off but can't because your other hand is doing the same thing. Besides, if you did manage to take off the gauze and cloth, Angela would put them back on, except this time they'd be tighter. It was torturous.

So I finally had control of my hands, and what was the first thing I was going to do...... watch a movie. Yeah, big whoop right? But look at it this way: I was feeling lazy and didn't want to do anything. I still wasn't allowed to leave the pavilion yet, so I was stuck. I swear, I was going to look like a vampire because I hadn't seen direct sunlight in 3 weeks. My back also wasn't healed well enough yet for me to do anything strenuous. I had control of my hands back, but my back was a whole other story. My right arm was actually strapped to my side so that I didn't disturb the gigantic hole in my back! I still couldn't do much. 

This particular day, Jeod couldn't come because he had other things he had to do for the Varden. Reading Romeo and Juliet would have to wait until the next day. I was bord and wanted to watch a movie. Of course Alagesia didn't have a TV sitting around, so I had to pull one out of my backpack. But I could move one arm, so I opened the backpack, placed the open end on the ground, and then lifted the backpack off the ground. Out of the opening of the backpack, a huge flat screen TV appeared as I lifted the backpack. I was happy. I did the same thing again, but a DVD player came out instead. 

By this time I had figured out that anything I pulled out of the backpack that required electricity automatically worked on its own.  That was a nice feature, so I didn't worry if the television would work or not. Besides, Fate owed me one. I had taken a bullet for HER cause and was brought here against my will. I expected payment. This was only part of it. Other payments would be due as well. 

Eragon and Arya walked in as I was plugging the DVD player into the TV. I was lying on my side while doing this. Of course they questioned what I was doing, I replied, "I'm going to watch a movie." 

"Movie?" 

"Yeah, a motion picture." 

"Motion picture." 

"It's like a play." 

"In a small box?" 

"... Sure, whatever." 

They looked at each other. I saw the curiosity in their eyes before they even asked the question. "May we watch with you?" 

"Yeah. Hey, would you hand me the wire over there?" 

................Later.................

 At last, about an hour later everything was set up. The ground was completely covered in about 3 layers of blankets and pillows. No one outside of the tent knew about this. Eragon and Arya helped me set it up. Just as I was getting ready to sit down and relax, Saphira stuck her head through the opening of the pavilion. Eragon had told her why he hadn't come out of the pavilion in about an hour, and she wanted to watch the movie too. 

What is the name of this "motion picture" we are going to watch? she asked. 

I put the disk into the DVD player and then sat down in the home-made throne of pillows I had made earlier. I pressed the power button on the remote control and the TV flashed on. Eragon and Arya, who had sat down next to me, were transfixed by the previews showing up on the screen. "This movie is called 'How to Train Your Dragon'."