Realizing that she would not back down, I could only hope that she would not regret it.
- Okay, Cassandra, after graduation from the academy, we will conduct a wedding ritual. - Agreeing with her wish, I said.
Hearing my words, Cassandra, instead of moving away, came even closer to me, I could now smell her and her breath.
- I want to do the wedding ritual now before you run away. - Cassandra said with a slight sadness in her voice.
I did not expect such persistence from her, thinking about how to refuse, I found only one possible reason.
- I don't have the necessary ingredients for the wedding ritual. I said, trying to sound as sad as possible.
Hearing my words, I saw Cassandra moving away, starting to think that I had managed to find the reason, and immediately my hopes turned to dust.
- I knew you wouldn't have them, so I prepared myself. - Cassandra said in a joyful voice, taking out everything she needed from the ring.
Watching her take out all the ingredients, I couldn't help but sigh with the realization that I couldn't escape. The wedding ritual is done with the help of several mandatory things: the blood of the future husband and wife and the symbol of the family, I did not know which symbol she chose.
When I saw two small bowls, I knew what they were for, the blood of both was released there and they drank each other's blood, binding themselves with blood. The talisman is then dipped in the remainder of the blood and thanks to the spell, it wraps around the partner's arm if something happens to his partner, the talisman turns gray.
Watching as Cassandra pulls out a knife and runs it over her hand, letting the blood flow into the bowl, I waited for her to pour the blood into her bowl and come back to me to fill her cup with blood.
It took some time while I was waiting for Cassandra's return, I can't say that I saw only bad things in it, but it imposed certain changes in my plans. Seeing Cassandra coming up to me holding two candles in her hands. She went to the bed and put the bowl with her blood on the bedside table and handed the empty one to me with a dagger.
- Are you sure Cassandra? There will be no turning back. - I warned her.
Cassandra just smiled at my question and started waiting until I started filling the cup.
Sighing, I took the dagger with my left hand and ran the tip over my right hand and tilted my hand over the bowl, allowing the blood to flow into the bowl faster. Cassandra looked from the bowl to me, I expected her to change her mind, but for all the time while my blood was flowing into the bowl, she did not say that she was changing her mind. We sat in silence while my blood filled the cup remembering my past experience, I hoped that the goddess Hes would not interfere in this wedding ritual. After filling the cup with my blood, I took my hand away from her, took the pill from Cassandra's hands, swallowed it and began to look out for which talisman she chose.
When Cassandra saw that I was done, she put two medium-sized snakes on the bed, they were not alive, they were made by different magicians who earned by creating objects from different metals.
The colors of the snakes were suitable, one was black with red dots, the other was red with black dots on the body. Taking a red snake and dipping it into my bowl, the snake seemed to become alive, it began to absorb my blood from the bowl and the snake itself became thicker.
After drinking almost all the blood, the snake froze, Cassandra took a black snake and dipped it in her blood and the same thing happened after watching the snakes and seeing that nothing happened to them, I calmed down.
Putting two snakes next to each other, Cassandra took two bowls, passed her own to me, and took mine in her hands, presenting it to her lips, she began to finish my blood that the snake did not drink. I had no choice but to start drinking Cassandra's blood.
Having tasted someone's blood for the first time, it was like slightly salty water. After finishing each other's blood, I took a red snake and wrapped it just above my left elbow. And suddenly the snake came to life and bit Cassandra, not expecting this, she screamed but then calmed down. Looking closely at the snake, I could see how it began to change, as well as its color, it became a red-black snake.
Cassandra, not paying attention to this at that moment, took a black snake and wrapped it just above her right elbow. Expecting the snake to come to life and bite me, but it didn't happen, I felt the snake wrapping around my arm, but I didn't feel any discomfort.
The last item left was a kiss, I approached her and kissed her, feeling her breath and smell. Distancing myself from her and starting to examine her, I could not help but notice that the snake had bitten her, which means that the power of chaos had to somehow affect Cassandra.
- Are you all right, Cassandra? - I asked looking into her eyes, but I couldn't notice the changes.