Chapter 23.1
(Finca)
My travels lead me to the elf capital Ellesmera, hid within the deep forest of Du Weldenvarden. I am led there by my master's scent. Shruikan's warning echoes through my mind continuously as I fly toward the forest that is blanketed by magic, tons of it. I stop when I'm about halfway through and decide to rest against a tree. My rest doesn't last for very long though, because I am awoken by a young elf, I'm guessing that it's a male and that it's about ten or twenty years ago. He hangs on a branch above where I sleep, and to be honest, annoys me with just being there. I get to my feet and glare up at him, he merely laughs as if my gaze means nothing to him. Elves, magic-users that you can't turn your back on or else you might wake up to find thousands of arrows sticking out of you. Those types of people, I despise with my whole being.
An idea comes to mind as I glare at the elf, an idea that would please me to no end. While I do not enjoy the taste of human flesh, I might enjoy the flesh of a magic-user, much like this elf. So with a single flap of my wings, I leap to the branch from which the young elf was watching me from.
Welcome, magic-user, I growl, baring my gleaming, white teeth as I project my thoughts into his mind.
He gazes back at me, not scared.
Strange, I think. He's about to face certain death but yet he's not worried? These elves are stranger then the dwarves from the Varden were.
The elf bows to me in respect, a sign that puzzles me slightly.
"Welcome Lightscales, your human is at the Crags of Tel'naeir along with Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Brightscales should you wish to go to him," the elf says in what I believe is that of the ancient language.
I shall, I hum. Your name?
"My name is Vanir, oh Lightscales," the male elf replies before he jumps off the branch and walks away.
He might make a good Dragon Rider someday, I think to myself as I watch him walk off. But as for now, I shall find Tamli at the Crags of Tel'naeir before I must hunt him now again. Of course that is after I eat, this travel has severely weakened me.
With that I set out into a deeper part of the forest to look for food, my thoughts straying back to the black male dragon that I left behind in Uru'baen and my promise to him.