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Sarah felt nothing but relief.
Relief that her brother was safe and sound, relief that she could finally relax. Her journey through the Labyrinth seemed like years rather than just a day.
She thought back to Jareth, the Goblin King, and shuddered.
"Just love me…do as I say, and I will be your slave!"
Sarah grimaced in the dark, as she tried to fall asleep.
Had he really loved her? He had offered her to be his queen…Queen Sarah, of the goblins.
Sarah thought back to her book that she had read over and over again. Her book is what had helped her finally defeat the Goblin King.
In other words, her book was real.
Sarah thought to the one part in the book that, no matter how many times she read it, she never fully understood. It was the part just after the narrator had saved her little brother. Sarah never could understand why the narrator was thinking the way she did here.
The Goblin King loved me. Loved me more than any girl on earth! I have thought…thought long, thought hard. Do I love him too? Do I? I do not know! His voice is so sweet, his face so handsome. He is a king. A great king! If I love him, as he loves me, I shall marry him and become his queen. I could be a ruler of a great nation, the nation of the Goblin. I could leave my horrid life behind, the life with my cruel stepmother, and uncaring father. I closed my eyes, and murmured to myself: "Great Goblin King…You have loved me more than your nation itself. I now know what I feel for you, truly, and with all my heart. Return to me, and I shall be your slave and your queen."
The book never said, however, if the Goblin King ever returned to the girl.
Sarah thought of Jareth. He was so handsome, and had told her that he loved her. Sarah thought back to her hallucination, of her in the ballroom, dancing, dancing…
She thought of her family at her house. Her stepmother, just like in the story, was always so mean to her. Her father never seemed to care. Sarah had no friends at school, no one to go to…Would it really be worth it to return to the Goblin King?
One thing nagged at her mind the most…did she really love him, enough to possibly marry him?
Sarah thought of him again, and her heart gave a little flutter.
Scrambling out of bed, she turned her nightlight on and ran to her bedside drawer, grabbing the old book titled Labyrinth out of the table. Sarah flipped to the last page and read the last sentence out loud:
"Great Goblin King…You have loved me more than your nation itself. I now know what I feel for you, truly, and with all my heart. Return to me, and I shall be your slave and queen."
Sarah waited, anxiously and breathlessly as the clock struck midnight.
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