Eragon

Eragon

By Christopher Paolini

The wind was cool and crisp, Eragon shivered. He had been tracking a lame doe for many miles up the Spine. The herd of deer finely stopped to rest. Eragon got his bow ready. He found were the doe had settled he got a little more than five feet to it. There was a sudden bright light and before it faded there was a loud whipping noise that echoed through the forest. The deer’s jolted upward, Eragon let go missing the doe by inches. The arrow disappeared into the forest. Eragon cursed to him-self, there went the meat that was going to pull them through winter and one of his arrows. In the middle of were the bright light came from was a large stone, the plants and trees by it were scorched. Eragon cautiously went to the stone. Looked around and then kneeled by the stone. Looking around once more he picked it up. The stone weighed about five pounds and was a foot long. It was dark sapphire blue with white vanes all around it. Eragon put the stone back down and opened his bag then put the stone in it. He needed to get back home. He could probably sell it to Sloan for meat. It toke him haft a day to get back to Carvehall. When he was in town he went to Sloan and tried to sell the stone to him but Sloan wouldn’t take it because Eragon found it in the Spine. Horst the black smith for the town came in when they were talking and get into it. In the end, Horst paid for the meat and Eragon still had the stone. When Eragon was home his uncle Garrow asked him where he got the meat from. After he had a long talk with Garrow about what happened, he went to his room and toke out the stone and looked at it more closely. It was beautiful. He put it on his little shelf that had all his other trinkets on it. Then pulled off his shirt and went to bed.  In the middle of the night there was a little loud squeak. Eragon sat up straight looked around the room with the little light that the moon gave. Thinking that it might have just been a mouse fell back asleep. A little while later there was another louder this time. Eragon slowly sat up, lit a candle and looked around the room again. Then stopped and stared at the stone.