Prologue

Disclaimer: Don't and never will own Eragon. Someone please bribe CP to give it to me!

Katrina woke with a start. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and examined her surroundings. She found herself in a cage… alone. She thought of Roran, what she would give to be in his arms once more. She lay down, pretending to be asleep immediately as she heard two voices screeching to each other. The Ra'zac she thought to herself, that means I'm in Helgrind! She felt dizziness in her head as she lay down asleep, with the thought that Roran would save her in her head.

Several hours later.

Katrina awoke and looked around. She saw that she was in a natural cave. She tried to stand but found that she was chained to a chair. Her father was sitting next to her. This made her feel a bit more secure. Just as she was feeling secure, the short Ra'zac appeared through the doorway.

"Sso, you have awaken at last," it hissed, nursing an injury on the side of it's torso.

"Roran will save me," she said determined.

"Ah ze boy with the hammer," he couldn't hit a fly.

Katrina smirked, "well he could hit you, and you're a fly"

Enraged, the Ra'zac unsheathed his sword and walked towards Katrina, she swore that she had seen a hint of red on his deformed face. He brought the sword up to Katrina's neck.

"If you don't watch yourself, your lover boy will have nothing to save, not even a corpse" he said smirking.

"ENOUGH!" it hissed "if you kill her now, the King will have our heads"

At this time, Sloan had awoken. He spit with all his strength at the shorter Ra'zac. It hit his face square in the middle. "That'll teach you touch my daughter," smirked Sloan, apparently quite happy at himself.

The short Ra'zac walked up and hit Sloan with the side of his blade, knocking him unconscious.

Although Katrina didn't really like Sloan for not letting her marry Roran, he after all, was still her father. She felt tears streaming down her face. What kind of monsters would do that?

The short one walked up to the taller one. "I'm going to investigate Varden activity in Gil'ead, stay here and guard, make sure you don't notify the Varden that we have Katrina here before I get back, you mightn't be able to take on a rider alone."

"Hmmm you over estimate the Rider. He is a mere child, but as you wish, I will wait until you return."

Katrina wondered who the 'rider' was, just then, she was unbound and felt rough hands grab her and pull her back to her cell, she fell asleep immediately wishing that Roran was safe.