Each breath is a struggle. The wound in his gut pulses with pain.

"Just a little further..."

The only words he uses to comfort himself. He's freezing. He's hungry. He knows what is happening. He's dying.

He was found by the so called 'Gilded Queen', the ever hungering, all consuming snake that wanted him. He was powerful. He knew so much of the world that came before her. How long was he in that literal gilded cage for?

"Come on... this isn't where I will die."

A lie. And he knows it. He killed her soldiers, destroyed part of her grand wealth in the process. It will not be long before she sends for him again.