Out of the maze

Jareth and Sarah appeared in a glittering cloud in the middle of the living room. Sarah was holding Toby in her arms tightly as she knew she would not be coming back to earth anytime soon. She kissed her little brother good bye and called upon a fae to pose as a baby sitter until her father and stepmother returned.

They returned around midnight and thanked the baby sitter as she walked out of the door, but they never saw her disappear as soon as the door closed behind her and they never realised that Toby was not sleeping in their room but in one of his own, a room full of stuffed animals that looked a little too used to belong to a toddler. And even though every now and again they would get the feeling that something was missing, they could never figure out exactly what.

Sarah kept watching them every now and then to make sure they were ok and they didn't remember her, but she had a lot to do in her kingdom. She took upon herself to organize the parts of the kingdom were the fae people lived together. For, even though all of her subjects were fae, no one could claim that all of them could get along as easily as she would hope.

She never stopped wondering just when the ways of the Goblin had become natural to her. Not that she would live in a place made only of stones like the Goblin City, or that she liked the untidiness of the place, but that was a Goblin place there for it was exactly the way it was supposed to be and she helped maintained.

Sarah created the High Fae City. A city of pure beauty with large streets, fountains and lots of threes and flowers, beautiful birds sang there all the time and the most beautiful of the faes would live and sing and dance and just be"¦ fae.

She also created the Grand City of the Trolls inside the largest cave of the largest mountain in the kingdom with its large and little rooms, spider webs, large common bed made out of leaves and strange plants the could glow in the dark.

She created beautiful and complicated gardens and add them to the maze and the King ruled all the land and lured people in to the labyrinth.

The kingdom blossom under the rule of its King and Queen. But a shadow remained, for even with all of their doing the King and Queen felt something was missing. They would hold each other on the balcony of their castle, watching the sun set and for just a second, if you looked in the right angle.

So life went on like a fairy tale.

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Sarah was sitting on a beautiful bench by the lake of dreams, the fairies were playing around her, chasing each other and tossing ripe blueberries. Almost all of them had blue stains on themselves as the game had been going on for quite some time. Sarah was laughing at the chase and tossing, that's how Jareth found his wife.

"Sarah" he greeted making all the fairies fly away.

"Jareth, came sit by me. I've missed you" said Sarah holding out her hand for her husband.

"And how are you today, my love?" he asked sitting at her side and pulling her to him.

"Humm, much better now"

All of the sudden they heard the voice of a boy echoing through the labyrinth.

"I wish the goblins would come and take you away right now"

"Looks like we are having company today" Sarah said smiling, she always enjoyed when a mortal would came to play.

"Yes, well, you collect whoever was sent here and I'll see to the happy wisher. What do you say?"

"Sounds like a plan to me, darling. Should we have dinner at the lost garden, say, around seven?"

"Perfect as usual. I'll meet you there as soon as the game starts" and Jareth disappeared in a cloud of smoke and glitter.

Sarah smiled and with a simple step sideways she was in the throne room at the castle to welcome her new guess. She stepped out of the shadows in a lilac dress that floated around her and a crown of flowers and leaves, her bared feet almost not touching the floor as she looked at the new arrival. Her heart missed a bit when she stared at the face of the child she knew it was her son.


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