Indicates Mental speech
After weeks of being stuck in the cage, Auron had withered into almost nothing. The diet of water and blood was not doing the young drake well. Hazel eye and made a habit of coming down and talking to him even if it wasn't time for feeding. The green scaled drakka still hadn't made any mental contact, well coherent mental contact. One afternoon when hunger pains gripped Auron a composition broke out on deck, he couldn't hear what was being said but he could smell the fear or was it anxiety, he couldn't tell. Auron passed out waiting for his next torture session. He awoke to Hazel eye came down the stairs with a bucket of slop, which it what Auron had started calling it.
Hazel eye now had seaweed growing in her hair. "If I knew if you would bite my hand off or not, I would take that muzzle off and start to bring down some chickens." She mumbled to Auron and she jammed the peace of stiff leather down his noise. He Auron could reply he would have done anything to get some real food. As soon as she finished feeding Auron two men opened the hatch that leads down to them and dragged down an unconscious boy no more than 18 with shaggy blonde hair. The men tied the teen to one of the posts where Hazel eye had slung her hammock. They started ascending the stairs that lead back to the main deck. "Oh, boys will you ask the Captain if he would be so kind as to see me. I would like chains to be made for the dragons so the can get out of the cages." The men grumbled in reply
"What's this I hear about you chaining the dragons to my ship?" He said in his gruff voice.
"They are not doing well in these cages they need to be very healthy for our buyer." Hazel eye said shortly
"As long as you are willing to pay for any damages that will accrue." He said. "Also what do you plan on doing with our young rescue here." He gestured with his hand at the blonde boy that was still unconscious.
"Well with the dragons free they will need straw or hey to lay in. Do you plan on cleaning up any leavings yourself? I don't plan on doing it." She said with a smirk on her face.
"I'll send down the blacksmith." The Captain said leaving.
Hazel eye bent down and turned to look at Auron. "You understood us, didn't you? I saw your eyes following us." Hazel eye sat there for a minute looking into Aurons large slitted eyes then got up and left. As soon as she left The boy looked up.
He made eye contact with Auron and, similarly to eye contact being made Auron felt a presence in his mind. "My name is Eragon and, I am here to help the three of you get off this ship."
"How can you mind speak? No other homemade can." Auron replied with surprise.
"My name is Natasatch, you blockhead." The green drakka said glaring at Auron. Eragon grinned at that comment thinking of Aria.
The blacksmith descends the stair and Eragon let his head hang down again. Without a word, the huge man screwed in iron hooks with chains attached then attached collars to each of the dragons. Chain about a foot long came out from the wall and was attached to the end on each caller.