Elsa "Lucas, they took him!" I repeated, my voice frantic and choked with sobs. I couldn’t stop weeping, the panic overwhelming me. I had banged on every door in the hallway, but no one had answered. It was as if the entire hotel had been drugged into silence. Lucas let me into his room and gently asked me to calm down, though I could see in his eyes that he was struggling to stay composed himself. "Who did they take?" he asked, but something in his voice was off. His movements were sluggish, and I realised that he, too, might have been drugged like the rest of us. "They drugged everyone," I stammered through my tears. "They snuck into our room, bound Adam in heavy silver chains, and put this silver collar around my neck. They held a syringe loaded with Duskbloom to my neck and forced

