Chapter 3.1
A few weeks pass and in that time I learn much more about the town. Its name is Carvahall and there are a lot more houses than you would think for such a small town. Also, the stone cracks open to reveal a baby dragon.
Oops . . . I'm getting ahead of myself aren't I? Well let's start here . . . Eragon and I are awakened one night by a small peeping noise coming from inside the stone. Eragon walks over, picks it up, and sets it on the bed. Suddenly it breaks open. Turns out, it was an egg and not a stone as I had thought. The little dragon is pure sapphire and its eyes are blue as well. Eragon reaches out to touch the newborn. Suddenly I sense a power coming from the little dragon. Eragon suddenly pulls his hand back. Some type of mark is beginning to form on it! The young dragon hops onto the bedpost and perches there. I sense its thoughts reaching out to Eragon.
Are you an it? Well I'm not an it either, I am a she, the dragon says.
Eragon recoils and almost bumps into me.
"You heard that too, didn't you?" Eragon asks.
The young dragon turns in my direction and speaks to me directly, You are friends with this human yes? If so please tell him that our minds, which is he and I, are linked together now. In other words, we can hear each other's thoughts as our own.
"Of course," I reply.
I reply her message to Eragon.
"Okay! I understand," Eragon says.
Good because something tells me that this dragon will be extremely important in the near future for us, I think to myself as I watch Eragon walk over and pick up the newly hatched dragon.
"Let's see if we can get some sleep," Eragon suggests.
"Good idea," I reply.
Suddenly the sapphire dragon perks her head up and dives into a nearby mound of straw. Eragon and I watch, curious to see what she's doing. She returns, smelling of rodent.
"I suppose we won't have to worry about the mice problem anymore," Eragon laughs as he and the new dragon climb into bed.
I fall into bed as soon as he does and try to get some sleep. However it does not come and I lay in bed with my eyes half closed. I try to remember some thing, anything, about my past and how I got here but nothing. Finally sleep does come upon me. A full hour passes before a dream comes to me. I would say that it's more of a vision than a dream but whichever one you want to believe.
A large white dragon with yellow eyes and a human upon her back. Could this be? No, that's impossible. I never seen a pure white dragon before. Let's see where are they going . . . Wait, this dragon, she's somehow vaguely familiar to me. It looks like they are headed for. . . . Oh no they are headed for Carvahall itself. They could work for the king but then again I suppose it would be more than just those two traveling alone if it was the king's army. Why do they know about Carvahall? Is it possible that they sensed the dragon's energy when she hatched?