Welcome to the Teaser...
My name is Sarah Williams. Why are you staring? Ah... you must have read my book, Labyrinth... I wrote it about 11 years ago after a somewhat traumatizing...dream... You don't believe me, do you? It really is a dream! I...Alright, I can see you aren't buying that. Fine, I'll tell you the truth. I really did go to the Labyrinth. No, really, I did. Don't stare! It's horribly rude! I know I sound crazy, but I really did wish my brother would be carried away by goblins in a fit of childish selfishness. I really did run a Labyrinth to get him back. I really did nearly fall in the Bog of Eternal Stench. Promise. And before you ask, yes I did turn down my dreams- More than once. Are you satisfied with my answers yet?
I won't lie and say that I haven't been changed at all by my experience down there. I'd like to say that I was able to put the entire experience behind me and live a perfectly normal, respectable, life, fulfill my dream of being an actress, and move on past my fantasies. After all, I turned them down. But, I really don't like to lie. In reality, I wrote down my experience, and someone sent it in to a publisher, I haven't figured out who et..I think it might have been my father or step mother. They printed it, and now I write novels for a living. I acted through high school, and little since, but... I guess everything else just pales in comparison after my true showdown. The only thing I can bring myself to lie about is the Labyrinth itself. I tell people it's a dream, because I'd rather not be carried away by the men in white jackets. I have a feeling that would give certain villains great pleasure. Not naming names.
To be honest with you, even though I am aware of the Goblin..King's... name...I have never brought myself to say it allowed. I even changed it in the book to Garrod. No, I'm not going to tell you what his real name is. Do you think I'm stupid? I changed it for a reason. I don't want anyone accidently summoning him. I even changed his title in the literature, to Goblin Lord. I figure, just in case someone does get the idea of summoning him to take away a screaming child, he won't answer to that! I even put a warning label on my book. ...don't look at me like I'm paranoid!! I'm not, really... really...
As for that particular personage, That's the other thing I lie about. I get aked all the time if he really loved the girl, and if he continued to after she rejected him like that. I don't like to shatter people's hopes, so I tell them yes, even though I'm preeeetty sure he's forgotten all about the girl. I mean, seriously, in order for the surely casual fascination he had with me to have survived those six words, a man would have to be totally obsessed...or...or... no, they'd simply have to be totally obsessed...
Clearly, Sarah hasn't exactly come to a total conclusion of her experience in the Labyrinth. Yet, with her book out, she does seem to be reminded of it. We all know there is a certain Goblin King out there who wasn't quite finished with Sarah as thoroughly as he'd like. A lot of unfinished business, unanswered questions. Sarah is doing her best to stay careful, not give him any chance to intervene, or to do unto others the same, even if he wanted to.
But we all know by now, nothing, is as expected with Jareth, now is it?