I don't own it. Paolini does.

I remember the cold.

And the light.

I felt their eyes on me, the shock in my father's voice.

"Blödhtsalick…" said he, peering, awestruck, at the deformed bundle in his arms. A sea of unknown faces swarmed in an intangible blur before me, blending into each other without exception.

"Blood talons."

I felt the air rush around me, the drop of gravity in my stomach.

And I fell.