AN: GRRR!!! I'm never happy with this! I keep switching back and forth. It turns out I didn't have enough to go on with Solace. So I'm going back to In The Beginning. Apologies…

Disclaimer: I do not own Labyrinth or Merlin.

In the beginning…

There was no beginning, and there was no end. There is neither light nor dark, there was no time only being, and there is neither here nor there. At the center, it beckoned, called for action and transformation. No words were spoken, no thoughts were needed.

It was here it began…

She was enveloped in darkness and a strange feeling of unease began to creep into her skin. She felt her body rising and felt her arms and legs bend and twist. No, it wasn't her limbs twisting, it was her mind; her mind that wouldn't allow her body to wake. She felt her arms extending out in front of her, her hands were reaching out into the darkness, but it was to keep her away from the unease that was coming closer and closer. Her body desperately wanted to stay back from it, but her mind was struggling to go forward. Her inner-being was forcing her towards that unease, towards that fearful, unknown darkness smothering her now on all sides.

Her breathing was becoming short from the body fighting to stay where it was; she couldn't hold on much longer; her mind was becoming strained from the constant effort to keep it, and the physical body, intact. The darkness was closing in around her and the unease she had felt earlier was now terror. If she did not stop the struggle within her soon, she would become completely drained and perhaps permanently mentally damaged from the enormous pressure and strain she was experiencing in that small moment. Finally, she forced her body to relax and let her mind carry her to wherever it needed to go. She was being pulled through the darkness at a sickening speed and she realized the terror she had been faced with was the fear of the unknown her mind body hadn't experienced before. But her mind knew it and she let it take her entire being deep into the black void.

She was not only taken from her home, but Sarah Williams was taken completely away from her world.