Sera Valdris was the best the Academy had produced in seven generations, and that was saying something because the Academy had one hundred and fifteen branches all over this continent.
She had been tested at eight, early, because the Academy had been watching her since she was a child, because they had seen something in her that they had not seen in anyone for a long time.
She had opened eight pools that were all freakishly deep, granting her access to more essence than any Siphon in her stage or higher.
The number of pools was more than anyone in her class had opened in centuries, and from that moment, she was told that she could be one of the most powerful Siphons to ever emerge from the Academy.
Sera had spent the next ten years proving them right.
Now eighteen years old, tall, lean, with the kind of grace that came from years of training and the kind of stillness that came from years of waiting.
