Disclaimer: I obviously don't own Labyrinth or any of the characters you recognize.
Prologue
One blue eye, one green. Both cold and fiery at the same time. Those eyes haunted Meah day and night. They had played a part in every one of her dreams for as long as she could remember, and, now, it seemed that she saw them wherever she went. When she was little, she would ask her mother about the man with the mismatched eyes. Sarah Newman avoided the subject and would get upset every time Meah brought it up, so she finally quit mentioning him.
On Meah's sixteenth birthday, a cloth-wrapped package appeared on her windowsill. She opened it to reveal an old, red velvet book. It was called Labyrinth. It told of a young girl who wished her baby brother away to the Goblin City. The king of the goblins told her that if she wanted to get her brother back, she had thirteen hours to beat the labyrinth that surrounded the castle. The girl struggled through the labyrinth, meeting all kinds of creatures and learning different lessons. She surprised the Goblin King when she beat the maze. He fell in love with her over the course of the thirteen hours and pleaded for her to stay with him. She refused, saying, "You have no power over me." Those words set her and her brother free.
Meah loved the story. She felt bad for the Goblin King, though. She had always been a hopeless romantic and loved happily ever after's. The king never got his. She wished the king could find someone else to love. For the next two years, Meah carried that book everywhere. She was never without it. The day before her eighteenth birthday, her wish finally came true.
