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realize that he was the one in charge. Dog vowed to stick a knife into this man’s heart given the first opportunity.
    “You’re a savage,” Ryker grinned. He held a cigarette to his mouth and inhaled it with euphoric pleasure. Dog wanted to shove the thing through Ryker’s nostril.
    “The way you killed the other boy, it was…” Ryker began. “It was beautiful.”
    “It wasn’t intended to be,” Dog replied. Ryker took another drag from his cigarette before tossing it onto the floor. He extinguished it with the tip of his pointy leather boot and took a step closer to the iron cage.
    “You stirred something in me,” Ryker said. “I felt this overwhelming excitement watching you take the life out of that boy. It was like watching a lion cub stalking its prey for the first time. You fight with this ferocity that I haven’t seen in a long while.”
    Dog was not amused by Ryker’s words and he ignored him, hoping that this greasy man would leave him in peace. No such luck.
    “You are a curious one,” Ryker thought aloud, his eyes narrowing on Dog. “You could have killed your opponent easily, but you allowed him to come back in the fight. You practically gave him the knife.” Dog could tell that the fights were a passion to him.
    “No,” Dog replied. “He took me by surprise. He was stronger than I thought.”
    Ryker laughed and shook his head. “You’re just fooling yourself kid. You had him, but you hesitated. Those scars on your arms and chest are your own doing.”
    Dog frowned at what Ryker was implying. He had spent his whole life surviving, and if it meant taking another life in order to do so, he had no qualms over it. He was not weak.
    “Was Sunny the first person you ever killed?” Ryker asked.
    Dog met him with silence.
    “No, you’ve done it before,” Ryker said. “The first time is always the hardest. They normally cry after they do it, but for some reason you stood there like some dumb oaf, staring at Sunny while he bled out in front of you. You’ve killed before.”
    “I don’t like crying.”
    Ryker smiled. “Spoken like a true tough guy. I have high hopes for you in the pits.”
    “I’m just surviving this shit you brought me into,” Dog replied.
    Ryker chuckled. “You have another fight coming up in three days. Eat your fill and rest up,” Ryker said. “This time your opponent won’t be easy. He has blood on his hands too.”
    Dog shrugged his shoulders and walked away from the cage. He sat down in the corner of his cell and stared at the ceiling while Ryker crammed in one last word before he left.
    “Savage.”
    When Dog was finally alone, he began thinking about the next fight. If it were against any of the others in this room, Dog had little to worry about.
    You had him but you hesitated, were Ryker’s words.
    “Maybe I did after all,” Dog whispered to himself.
     
     
    In the middle of the night, a third visitor came to see Dog. Sunny stood within the confines of Dog’s cell and stared at him with bloody eyes.
    He was still bleeding profusely, though his body was translucent instead of a lively flesh color. He did not speak, but his eyes said everything Dog needed to hear.
    I’m dead.
    “I’m sorry. I didn’t have a choice,” Dog said. “One of us had to die.”
    But why me?
    Dog rose to his feet and looked Sunny in his pale eyes.
    “We were both at the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said.
    I had a life.
    “So did I.”
    I had a family. Someone loved me.
    “Someone loved me once too.”
    But not anymore?
    “No. Not anymore.”
    Then you see, I should have been the one to live.
    Dog shook his head. “Don’t you see? We’ll all die here anyways.”
    Sunny nodded in agreement.
    “Are you at peace where you are?” Dog asked. Sunny shook his head.
    Not until we’re all free. Until then I can’t leave. None of us can.
    “You going to spook me every night? That is until I die and end up like you?” Dog asked. The apparition shook his