Chapter 29 The Eye Of The Storm

• The chaos of the siege echoed throughout the Academy grounds, but as Ava sprinted through the rubble-strewn courtyard, she found herself moving towards an eerie calm. A strange, unnatural stillness hung in the air, as if time had slowed. The cacophony of battle, the clash of spells and the cries of warriors, all seemed to fade as she approached the heart of the storm—its eye.
• A massive vortex swirled in the sky above the Academy, dark clouds spiraling around a dead center of cold, blue light. The storm had ravaged the landscape, bending the very elements to its will, but within the eye, everything was quiet. It was as if the storm itself was holding its breath, waiting for the moment to strike.
• Ava could feel the pull of the storm, a deep, magnetic force that seemed to draw her in. Her mind buzzed with conflicting emotions—fear, anger, sorrow—but above all, there was a strange sense of inevitability. She knew she had to go into the eye, into the heart of the storm, if she was going to end this once and for all.