Eragon's new adventure
It has been five months since eragon and saphira left alagaesia. He and the elves found a location for the new home of the riders quickly. The location was well suited a plateau on the plains that had a large stand of trees on top of it with plenty of game for the dragons to eat. Eragon and the elves immediately went to work building a hall on top. This took him about two months to complete during this time he was feeling horrible about leaving the love of his life behind but he told himself that it was necessary for the good of the riders but it still stung when he saw the elven mates being intimate. He longed to see Arya but he knew he couldn't leave when he contacted her through the scrying mirror it made him miss her even more.
Eragons point of view:
How are you my love? He wanted to ask more but seeing Arya made him long to return home. She said that she was doing well and things were settling down well. The elves were in the process of grieving for the dead who were lost in the war but things were already looking up there were thirty announcements of a baby being conceived in Elesmera alone. This made eragon happy and think that the elves were finally coming out of their shells and becoming more open. He enquired as to how her dragon was doing and she said well but he was missing saphira a lot and she also admitted that she missed him very much. Not long after that a tear ran down her cheek and she said that she must go. This hurt eragon before she ended her spell Eragon said "Arya I love you." Tears welled in his eyes as he let the spell fade he turned away and left the ship to go for a walk in the grasslands before dark.
Arya's point of view:
Eragon said he loved me before I left she was thinking as she ran up the stairs to his old tree house where she had been living at his request instead of her family's estate and where he had sent a present to that day without telling her. As she walks into the main room she says hello to Firnen who had gotten home much earlier than she had with a small sharp toothed grin he said "Eragon has sent you a present it is in the fire place." This shocked Arya a little but she said thank you and went to the fire place. There was a package that was fairly small and wrapped in cloth and what looked like silver thread with a note it said Arya I know elves don't practice marriage but I hope you would wear this for me. She was trembling slightly as she untied the tread and unwraps the cloth to revile a hand craved box with a white gold ring with a large sapphire as the center stone with smaller diamonds around it and a necklace to match that looked to be of dwarvish make. The ring was engraved it read "Eragon and Arya forever". She smiled and slid the ring onto her ring finger and it fit perfectly. She walked back into the main room to show her dragon but he was already aware of it eragon had told him of his plan before he had left but asked him to keep it secret. She wasn't mad she was actually very happy about this and went into the washroom to contact Eragon again. When the water cleared and she saw eragon he was sitting at a table in his room eating an apple looking at the mirror apparently waiting for her to contact him again he smiled very broadly as he saw her and said "Arya will you be mine forever?" she was completely smitten by the gesture and said "yes I will be." He smiled and said he loved her and she couldn't help but think that her place wasn't were she was at the moment. They continued to talk for a long time before she said "I must go my love." This made Eragon frown but he assumed that she was tired and needed sleep so he bid her farewell and let the spell fade. Arya needed time to think about what she was about to do so she bathed and got dressed in a royal gown and sent for her council to meet her in the dining room of Eragon's tree house it was about an hour later that they had assembled and Arya had greeted them all and told them to take their seats she was looking around when one asked "what is the meaning of this meeting your highness?" in a very pleasant tone. She hated to do what she was about to but she said "I am passing the torch to another it is time for myself to travel to be with the other riders which there are now five of." "I will be taking the dwarven and urgal riders to live with Eragon and his brother Murtagh and I will be staying for I am in love with eragon and I have a duty to the riders." The council said they had accepted this already and thought that lord Dathedr should be the one to become king when she left. She was relieved that they had said this for she was going to say the same thing. They concluded their business and left while she readied her things to leave this took days and lots of good byes before the young riders and she was really upset to leave but happy to see the love of her life again as the farewell feast is being prepared she contacts him to tell him that the young riders were going to leave in the morning she made no mention that she would be accompanying them. She cut the conversation short by saying I love you so much but there is still much to do I will speak to you soon. Arya must now break the news to the human's new queen that she is leaving to be with Eragon. Nasuada was sadden that she was leaving but happy that Eragon will be happier with her with Arya there with him.