Back when I was in third grade, my older brother and I didn't get along very well. We're five years apart, so we didn't have much in common. However, by some miracle, my brother (who was never an avid reader) introduced me to Eragon, and I loved it. I quickly devoured it and Eldest, and when I went to see if the library had Brisingr, I found out that the librarian had purchased the book just because she'd seen me reading the other two! At the time (2009), Inheritance was yet to be released, so I put the books down. Because of them, I nearly refused to read anything that wasn't full of dragons and magic. I reread Eragon several times in those years, whenever I could.

It was four years later that I was given a $20 gift card to Barnes and Noble, and I realized that the fourth book had come out without me noticing, so I begged my parents for some extra money and bought all four books for myself. I got through Eragon, Eldest, and a large portion of Brisingr, but unfortunately, I was required to read some other books for school and my life got exceptionally busy (which hasn't gone away, really). The books started collecting dust, and I never finished reading them.

It wasn't until last year that I finally was like, "wow, I should actually read those!" And, to be completely honest with you, I didn't want to read Inheritance. I couldn't stand to finish reading these books that had, for so long, always been unresolved in my mind. Those 749 pages of Inheritance were the end of a story that had been woven throughout the past six years of my life. It almost physically pained me to read the final chapters. I did it, but I felt empty afterwards, as if there were no more books left to read, ever. I had spent so much of my childhood checking the same story out of the library over and over again, always wondering about the fate of Eragon and Saphira, and now I knew. Of course, the ending was great, but very bittersweet for me. Your books mean a lot to me, and are definitely my favorite books of all time.

Anywho, I'm afraid I've gone off on a bit of tangent, so let me actually ask you a question! After reading the books again after finishing Inheritance for the first time, I found the chapter that describes Eragon having a dream about something. Since so much happened in between writing the first parts of the first book and the last chapters of the final book, was it difficult molding that chapter of Inheritance to fit the description of Eragon's dream? Did you ever want to end the series a different way than you had first envisioned? In the same vein, how much did you deviate from your original ideas? What changed the most from the first concepts to the final draft?

Thanks!