She opened her eyes to see him placing a candle on either side of her head. She looked at him raising an eyebrow and smiling said "must you do this every night?", he merely gave a half smile and continued. She slipped back into sleep.
She looked around her and found herself surrounded by people in beautiful gowns and exotic suits spinning past her, and through the mass of light and people she saw a form dressed in a midnight blue velvet jacket with what seemed to be real stars twinkling on it, his light hair falling into his eyes as he put on hand in hers and the other around her waist pulling her close to him. As they danced she could not make her eyes move from his. When the night was ending and the world was crumbling he grabbed her shoulders pleading with her with his eyes and said "Save me".
Sarah woke with a jolt from the almost memory of her night with the goblin king. She slid out of bed and walked quietly to the bathroom and looked at her pale reflection, never had the dream been so vivid before. The deal they had made a month after she won the labyrinth was that every night she was his in her sleep. She had found out very quickly that she needed him in her life, he had left a deep imprint on her she couldn't shake as much as she would like. When she had called on him to ask this he had roared with with laughter and said "you could have been my queen", he agreed in the end because he knew it would only torment her more now that she relied so much on him in her life, he loved the annoyance in her eyes every night they shared. Now he was suffering and she felt a need to help him. The underground had crumbled away, had that actually happened? was it in the process? her friends where there, what could she do? But what troubled Sarah the most was the very beginning with the strange man, she had somehow known…