When Destiny Burns, Ep. 2 A Halo and Inheritance Cycle Crossover [Discontinued]

Chapter 17.2 Narrow views pt1

He waited for Aeraleth to join him and then the two of them left again. The dragon's unnatural growth had slowed down to a certain degree; now she seemed to grow at a pace that was –according to Glaedr- befitting of a normal dragon.

'Why did Eragon leave?' Aeraleth asked him on their way back.

'Because he pressured Arya by being in love with her.'

'...what?'

'Apparently, he was in love with her. And that is bad. So now she is upset. And he wishes to apologize.'

'For being in love?'

'For being a love-sick puppy that can't overcome his crush.'

'That is a rather negative portrayal of love.'

'He was rather love-sick.'

'I see. What do you wish to do tonight, anyway?'

'Why do you keep asking me that?'

'If I do not, you will hide yourself inside of your tree and not show yourself to anyone. We are with the elves now. With the way they treat us, we can do anything we want to.'

'You mean you can do anything you want. They get scared whenever I approach.'

'Which is still the same to me.'

'Fine.'

They made their way past the cliffs to the open meadow where they had first met Oromis, heading towards the road that led towards Ellesméra. It was not until they had reached the great hall where the queen resided that Maine actually thought about something he wanted to do. He had been thinking about the whole 'star origin' thing that had the elves running scared. He had remembered some old guy from Furnost who had been pretty clear that the stars were important things, so it wasn't as if it was a racial thing. He wanted to find out more about that problem.

But first he wanted to go see Daenlith. To check up on her and see if everything was alright. When he presented that idea to Aeraleth though, she laughed loudly and scared the crap out of a nearby elf, who then promptly bowed to her and muttered "shadow scales".

Kiss ass.

'You want to see if an elf is alright in the city of elves? Maine, the elves have based their culture around courtesy to prevent arguments from arising. Nobody is going to harm anyone here.'

'Half correct. Courtesy to avoid argument is fine, unless one considers courtesy moot. We have already seen that there are many different ways to view things to the elves.'

'If you mean the group of elves you majestically beat a few days back...'

'I mean everyone. The queen, the princess, the smith, the teacher, the younglings, everyone sees matters in a different way.'

'And this endangers her...how?'

'It is obvious that few people hold respect for her. They could make moves against her as we speak.'

'You are being paranoid, little soldier. She has been fine the last few days, why not now?'

'Because the Forerunner building doesn't open for me.'

'...I lost your reasoning.'

He drew his sidearm and moved towards Daenlith's house, making sure to check the windows without actually crossing directly in front of them.

'Mankind has always had a strange link with Forerunner tech. If this Forerunner building doesn't work for me, something is very wrong.'

'And Daenlith is in danger because of this?'