I think I might be dead.

For what seemed like an eternity, I was only cognizant of pain. The sort that felt like fire licking across my skin. A fire that dug and seeped until it touched bones. A fire that consumed me before spitting out the remains, only to come in search of me again.

I thought I might be in Hell. And there must be a reason I had ended up here…

A reason…

The thought quickly dissolved as the fire found me once more.

It went on like that for ...