C32 Contract

My throat burned as if it were on fire, and my blood felt like it was boiling. I gulped down water in an attempt to quell the worsening condition of my body, but it was futile.

As my consciousness began to blur, the image of a woman shrouded in a red veil and dressed in a red wedding gown materialized before me. I let out a wretched smile, dismissing it as a hallucination, but to my surprise