Someday, someday soon

A sphinx instructed to guard the lower level docks at the space port waits for a representative from Atlantis to release him of his originally temporary duties. But years begin to pass, and then centuries. And a promise once given by a sphinx can never be taken back.

As far as he knows Atlantis is still a thriving country. As far as he knows everyone above ground, in the backwater base in Egypt, has forgotten that he's down there. If not for a shipment of books marked to go to an off world library he might have gone mad with the waiting, with the quiet.

He's not a mortal creature so he doesn't actually need to eat or sleep, but eventually he starts to spend more and more time dozing while he waits for someone to come someday.



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Oddly enough, his story is a science fiction, not fantasy.


The sketch: [link]