Not Edited. I'm sorry. Over the past three months, a lot of things improved in the castle, including how I was being treated. I was going to be the Prince's concubine, it was what they all thought, but they still don't know what we had planned. Not even Alan. My legs were fine now, and I don't use the crutches anymore. Nonetheless, I limped a bit when I've walked for too long. This time, however, the trip to the capital was with Alan. I had no idea what he and Eragon spoke of, but ever since then, there was a new relationship between them, one in which I think they've learned to tolerate each other more. I had wanted to see the mother Lu once more, to ask her what she had meant by what she had said when healing me, but she had left the castle to go visit a distant relative. I had share