"Bring it!"
The words tore out of me, and the sky heard, and as if I angered the world itself, the storm compressed even more than it had already done, as the black clouds that had been spreading from horizon to horizon compressed into a single point directly above the camp.
Now, I saw that I was not wrong, above me was a gigantic black cloud in the shape of a lidless eye, and I gaped in astonishment because I recognized this eye; in fact, it was in the back of every Acolyte robe I had ever worn.
The sigil of the Aldenmere Academy was a lidless eye, and at the Adept level, that Sigil would be changed to a lidless eye with a cross at its center, which signified that a mage had mastered a single element, and with more crosses in the center of the eye denoting all the elements mastered by the mage.
I had always believed that these sigils were just that, sigils, and were only a means of identification, but this tribulation cloud above me was saying something else.
