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"Summer. Summer. Can you hear me?" Ryker asked.

"Ryker. Where are you?" I asked, looking around at the dungeon that I was standing in.

"I'm over here." He said. I was standing in the middle of this dungeon wearing the same clothes that I had been when I went to sleep, and I turned to see Ryker chained to the wall behind me. He was badly beaten, and his wounds weren't healing. I knew that they were poisoning him so that he wouldn't heal.

"What have they done ...