Show Respect For Those In Power, But

Too Late. It's Hatched.

Root Of A Tree, Fruit Of A Vine, Let Me Pass By This Blood Of Mine.

But Ask Yourself This Eragon: If Gods Exist, Have They Been Good Custodians Of Alagaesia? Death, Sickness, Poverty, Tyranny And Countless Other Miseries Stalk The Land. If This Is The Handiwork Of Divine Beings, Then They Are To Be Rebelled Against And Overthrown, Not Given Obeisance, Obedience, And Reverance.

The Sea Is Emotion Incarnate. It Loves, Hates, And Weeps. It Defies All Attempts To Capture It With Words And Rejects All Shackles. No Matter What You Say About It, There Is Always That Which You Can't.

Who Is It Who Decides That One Man Should Live And Another Should Die? My Life Wasn't Worth Any More Than His, But He's The One Who's Buried, While I Get To Enjoy At Least A Few More Hours Above The Ground. Is It Chance, Random And Cruel, Or Is There Some Purpose Or Pattern To All This, Even If It Lies Beyond Our Ken?" -roran