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ChildOfTheMoon3 wrote: This has been bugging me ever since the finale.

Ruby's sliver eye powers freeze a GRIMM DRAGON in time, and it wasn't said if Cinder was I think, it might've been, so Cinder might also be frozen..

So is Summer had the same powers, what would be able to kill her?

How did Summer die?!

What could have killed her, an avalanche? (Whoops, sliver eyes don't cover nature!)

I feel like this will be important, because seriously, you all saw what Ruby did in the volume 3 finale.

As I remind everyone who brings this up, we don't know for certain that she is dead. The only thing anyone has in the way of actual confirmation as far as I am aware is a rather evasive and confusing statement from Williams. He struggles to come up with the right words to describe the meaning behind Red Like Roses Part II and his phrasing is that the song is about Ruby's feelings when learning of her mother's death. Even then he seemed to sort of struggle with that phrasing. Nothing else we have could even begin to function as confirmation of Summer being dead. Basically, there is still an open question as to whether she is dead or not.

That said, outside of death the only way to account for her absence would be if she faked her death or was presumed dead when she was in fact just staying away. So the question becomes why she would do that and the most likely explanation is that there is some danger in her going back. In a sense, that does go back to your question as Summer is pretty strong and capable so the only reason she could have for feeling that way is if there is some shady business going on in the Kingdoms. Were there a traitor within Vale or even within that little brotherhood then Summer would not risk returning as it could endanger her family.