Rock of Kuthian

Eragon was flummoxed. After all his effort of travelling over an entire ocean back to the ancestral home of humanity, he had nothing to show for it except for a massive, glowing spire of rock. He tried it again, concentrating, focusing all his will, his mind on this one word… crying out in the ancient language in both his mind and verbally, he yelled his true name. Again, the rock of Kuthian pulsed brightly, but nothing else seemed to happen.

Behind him, Saphira gouged the earth with her hind claws, clamping her forelimbs over her head. "WILL YOU STOP IT… obviously it's not doing anything other than giving us headaches".

"I thought I would give it one last try. I just hoped that all of our trouble would have been worth it. This may just cost us the war…" as Eragon trailed off, the silence was interrupted by the loudest thunder he had ever heard… but it was a crystal clear day. As he searched the skies for the source, he saw seven objects tear through the sky, glowing red hot and leaving a gash in the few wispy clouds as they went. He stood there, dumbstruck and followed the progress of the objects as they passed out of view.

Eragon was the first to break the silence "What do you think that was?"

"I know not rider-of-mine, but I do know it is not of this world. My memories are old and many, and I have never witnessed that before." Saphira responded, head cocked to the side in a confused expression.

Eragon gently rubbed Saphira on the neck, glad she was there. Though he didn't know what that was, he knew it scared him. Whatever it was, it would mean something major had happened such that the trip to the rock of Kuthian had indeed been worth it. "Let's go check it out, whatever those objects were, they can't have gotten too terribly far, and they were big enough it should be fairly obvious from the air." Grabbing a spine, Eragon vaulted onto Saphira's back, and they took to the sky. Saphira smoothly angled to the south east where the objects appeared to have fallen, silently cutting through the air