" A tingle passed through him. Saphira--
I know, she said, her excitement rising. The eggs!
Eragon smiled. Eggs! Dragon eggs! As a race, they would not pass into the void. They would survive, and flourish, and return to their former glory, as they had been before the fall of the Riders.
Then a horrible suspicion occurred to him. Did you make us forget anything else? he asked Umaroth.
If we did, how would we know? replied the white dragon. "
― Christopher Paolini , Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, #4)