Chapter 10.1

As I watch her fly off, I feel as if she was the only one to understand me.

What were you doing all day and who was that other dragon? Saphira asks as she snarls at me.

"That is my own business Saphira not yours," I growl as I walk off and back toward Teirm.

As I enter the city, I remember that there was an interesting shop beside Jeod's house. So as I near it I enter. The lighting is dim, and most of the items are stacked poorly against other objects. Suddenly someone steps out of a back room.

"Do you want me to read your fortune?"

I step back, startled no less by her question.

"I have no money."

"Did I ask for money? Since I didn't, I suppose that I can read your fortune then," She replies.

She goes back into the room to search for something. During that time a cat walks up to me.

You should be thankful that she's doing this for you, the cat says.

"You're a cat?"

Not just a cat. . . . I'm a werecat.

"Never heard of a werecat before," I say.

The last person to come in here said the same thing . . . his name I believe was Eragon.

Suddenly the person returns carrying a leather pouch.

"Sit please."

I do as asked and sit. She opens the bag and spills out bones.

"These are the knuckle bones of a dragon," She explains.

I shudder slightly as I realize that these bones could be the ancestor of Saphira or the white dragon. Suddenly the bones begin to move on their own. Once they stop, she begins to read them.

"This will be difficult to understand but I shall try to read them. A long life awaits you, perhaps far too long. Battles will range around you and another that will change the face of Alagaesia forever. Your memories from another time shall be rediscovered. You have powers that you do not fully understand, but will become clear in time. Destiny will reunite you with someone from your past. I see that . . . dragons will again fly in our skies soon. "

Dragons but how? Unless the white dragon was correct about the dragon embryos, I think as I listen to the person.

"I have finished my prediction so you are free to go if you please."

"Very well," I reply as I get up.

I walk out and to my amazement Eragon and Brom are leaving Teirm.

The one time that I'm gone they decide to leave the city.

I run after them and catch up with them. I stand there panting as I look at the two.

"Forgive me for not being here sooner but I have something to do," I explain.

"Something with the dragon from your dreams?"

"Yes, but how did you know?"

"Saphira told me earlier," Eragon replies.

"The Ra'zac are near Das-Lenoa," I tell as we walk along.

"How did you know that?" Brom asks.

"I was told by a friend and I was also told something very important to me, my name."

"Your real one?" Eragon asks.

"Yes. It's Tamli."

"Well there's one mystery solved now," Brom says as we leave Teirm and head toward Das-Lenoa.