Eragon POV
I was sitting on the bow of the Talíta as it slowly made its way down the river we were following. As I sat there, I thought about everything that had happened to me over the last few years and how I had changed from being the innocent farm boy to the battle hardened warrior who had killed hundreds, if not thousands of innocent people, that I now was.
As I thought, my gave swept over the deck of the ship until it came to rest on the one being in the world that I treasure above all others. As I gazed upon her my thoughts shifted from the battles that I had fought in, to the one thing that never changed, no matter where they we or what we were doing.
I thought about how I had found her egg in the woods while hunting and of how I had then tried to sell it for meat so that my uncle and cousin could survive the winter that was coming down upon us.
I am glad, now, that Sloan had refused to accept the egg as payment for the meat, as it meant that I now had a being, and a friend, who was not only there with me but with whom I also share a mental link with on a magnitude the likes of which has never been seen before.
Yes. I am glad that I didn't sell her egg to Sloan. I am glad that she hatched for me. And I am glad that she had come with me when I left Alagaësia, even though it meant leaving Firnen and his rider, Arya, behind.
My day seemed to get less happy and cheerful as I thought about Arya; as I thought about how she had rejected me all those times and of how cruel she was about it, I thought of when I had last seen her and of her confession of her love for me.
But that was ruined when I asked her stay with me on this final journey of my. She had decided to put her duty in front of her heart and to stay in Alagaësia to follow her duty as queen to the Elves. That was what got to me. The fact that she had confessed her love and then said that they could not be together. As I brooded over this my thoughts got darker and darker, until, eventually the whole day was ruined for me and I fell into a depressive slump.
General POV
When Saphira woke up from her doze, her gaze came to rest upon her reider. As she watched him she saw his face cave in. Instantly she knew what he was thinking about. It had become an unfortunate habit of his over the last few days to think over the past years and to remember. However, she knew that each time he did this his thoughts wandered to Arya and Firnen. She was thinking of a way to get him out of his foul mood when she was suddenly distracted by one of the elves yelling out.
Saphira brushed this outburst aside and tried to go back to dozing like she was before. Completely forgetting about what she had noticed about her rider.
As she was drifting off Eragon came up to her and said something that got her attention.
"There are a dragon and rider upahead".
As soon as this was out of his mouth Saphira bolted upright looking around wildly trying to spot the dragon and rider that Eragon claimed were there. As she looked around she noticed a plume of black smoke rising up into the air in not so far from the shore of the river, about a league ahead of where they were now.
Hiccup looked around trying to figure out where he and Toothless were. As he looked around all he could see was black smoke, until the wind picked up and blew the smoke away. It was then that he noticed Toothless standing next to him staring at something in the distance.
As Hiccup adjusted to the lighting around him he noticed that he was in a huge open field of grass, next to a river that seemed to disappear into the distance in both directions. Hiccup was shocked at the amount of uninhabited land there was there.
Toothless let out a low growl which attracted Hiccup's attention. Hiccup followed his dragons gave until he found the reason for the growl.
On the river there was a ship the likes of which he had never seen. It was a long white ship with a single mast that sat fairly low to the water. In a word it was awe-inspiring. It was graceful but looked like it had been built for a purpose.
It was what was on the boat however that caught Hiccup's attention, for sitting in the middle of the deck on the boat was a big Sapphire blue dragon.
