the smoky-looking orange sky roiled and tumbled overhead , and inky black patches lay in the folds of the clouds , shifting , coiling , and undulating as the clouds , still stained on their undersides by the new-risen sun , writhed in the sky above and flinched and shuddered as they begot drunken-appearing lightning that staggered down through the murky air to strike savagely at the altar of the one-eyed god on the pinnacle above .