LIKE FIRE, puss in boots

Chapter Six

The forest loomed over us, dark and menacing.

I felt my skin shiver rising with what you mortals call goosebumps. I hissed but kept my hood in check. Even Galbatorix's palace cannot compete with this place. So I think quietly as I clutch my sword, the metal giving me a strange but familiar sooth. Puss notices me being so tense and takes my hand in his own.

I look at him, seeing him give me a soft, reassuring smile "it will be alright, mi señora. Trust me, alright?" he said, looking deep into my eyes. I sigh and nod before leaning down and giving him a forehead kiss before turning back to the forest in front of us. I am the first one who makes it inside, and gasps as the weird feeling of magic follows.

Soon enough, my trend comes after Puss lands on eh ground screaming. I give him an amused look before standing up and helping my friends. "now let us see what the map says," I say and gesture to the Gatos, who glare at each other before unfolding the map. one by one, we place our paws on the map each one having a different outcome. Mine's a grassland littered with bodies of the dead. And... oh no... the old Brooding Palace.

Even some Urgals lurk in a forest place called Broken Covert, where Eragon and I had first defeated those foul beasts. I let Perito take the map, my mind already filled with those bad memories. But, you see, even the life of a dragon and her rider isn't always filled with happiness and rainbows. No, there are shadows there that will never clear.

There are fights you cannot redeem and wounds that will never heal. Such are those policies the map showed me. I cannot bare to relive all of those again.

Not now.

Not ever.

cliff hanger sorry

- Zarall