Patreon Update: The Question of the King

This week’s drabble returns us to the modern era and the impossible catacombs beneath a large city, where a young grad student has made the find(s) of a lifetime: the wealth of a civilization no one has any record of… and its relentless, immortal guardian. In this installment, he comes to a realization about his own relationship to both of them. Thanks to Framing Device and Pyro Hawk for the prompts of ‘i shall set you free’ and ‘freedom’s price’