How do you catch a dreamer? When one can see past the physical and into the spiritual, then it is easy. Catching and subduing is an art that has been perfected for eons. However, it is not catching the dreamer that is the problem. It is keeping them. She is past the typical age. Yet, the different purples and blues that swirled with reds and oranges that were somehow dipped into a golden bucket and made up her soul called out to me. To me! The thief in the night. Lilith's only redeeming quality. The Moon Prince and the Goblin King.
Thirteen phases in my year. Thirteen hours within my day. Thirteen days make up one week within my realm. On the moon where I lie and wait, not the fake moon the real one. I can shift into thirteen different shapes but I prefer my original face. I am beautiful. I am handsome. I am Jareth. Right now, I am thoroughly intrigued by a chocolate haired dreamer that plays in a park. A park! How very human. I can see something in her blossoming, throbbing, and begging to be released. I try to peer at her physical form again, she is beautiful in a childlike way. The fullness in her face and her striking green eyes. She could never pass as my child, as if I would ever want one. With the wished aways and the Goblins, well... I've had my fill of forced fatherhood.
"Damn... I can never remember that part."
But she is far from an innocent. While I do believe that the girls virtue is still intact, she is too awkward to have crossed that border and shatter a delicately placed version of reality. She is in a dress, she reads my book, and she is calling out to me.
There is a chime and we both snap our neck in the direction of the bell. It is only a matter of time before I'm summoned. It won't be long before the veils between our worlds collide. She will be mine. Her. Her soul. She will dance to my tunes as the colors of her soul bend to my will.
I fly away and can't help but think she has my mothers eyes.
"It's only forever, not long at all." Mother would say, it was the last thing she said before she returned to earth. Before she made alliances and used me as a bargaining piece. "Before she became a monster and beget many monsters. Now, we are both written down in books and scare mothers and children. I dive between worlds and arrive at my castle. Large and intimidating to many children that I receive here, but it is my home and has been for quite some time. The Goblins have returned to the city to celebrate, I waved my hand and the trash and chickens are gone. A crystal easily forms in the palm of my hand, one of my favorite from the thirteen I have. I wait and I watch the my dreamer, Sarah. It's only a matter of time before she calls and our games begin.