Jareth was back in one of his libraries, pouring over spell books and scrolls. Why did I do it… if she had finished…I know now what she was going to say…would have been free of me…His thoughts plagued him as he continued looking through the books. Morning had arrived which he only realized when one of the goblins knocked on the door and asked if he was going to come for breakfast. The goblin king felt the pains of hunger and stood up. His neck was aching, his clothes were disheveled, and his face was gaunt with fatigue. He came into the breakfast, rubbing his neck, not realizing how startling he really looked until Sarah saw him and dropped the knife she was picking up. Jareth quickly swiped a hand over his face and his make up and hair were instantly returned to normal. "Sorry."

Sarah continued eating all the while staring at Jareth. Meanwhile, Jareth nibbled on a small piece of bread, staring into the distance. They ate in peaceful silence. The sun was rising higher and poured through the windows and shined on Sarah, giving her face a soft halo and accenting her features. Her eyes sparkled and her cheeks turned a faint pink from the heat. Jareth turned his eyes to her and his breathe escaped him. Such beauty… so beautiful…But what good is her outer beauty now…now that I have…He turned quickly away from her and his brows furrowed.

"Jareth?" Sarah noticed his actions and concern came over her. Without responding or looking at her, Jareth got up and left the room. Sarah watched him walk out and simply sat there. Minutes passed and she didn't know what to do. She finally got up and walked around the unknown palace. She passed one slightly ajar door that was emitting light. She came closer to the small opening and saw Jareth sitting on a leather seat with a crystal ball in his hand. His face was sad and Sarah followed his gaze to the crystal ball. She saw a couple dancing in its center. She couldn't see their faces from a distance but a thought began to swim around her mind again as she saw them dancing. She pushed the door slightly so she could see better but her movement caught Jareth's eyes and he quickly made the crystal ball burst like a bubble. "What do you want?"

Sarah opened the door all the way and stepped inside. "I don't know. I didn't know what to do so I started walking around."

Jareth wanted to tell her to go to bed, but realizing that it was still morning, he tried to think of another way to keep her away from him and everybody else. He thought of his garden and how a section was still missing flowers. "Go to the garden and plant some flowers in the barren area. You may pick whatever flowers you want. That should keep you busy" Jareth stood up and pointed to the garden outside the window. "Julian can take you there and give you all that is needed." He produced a crystal ball and Julian's image formed with in it. "Julian, take her to the garden." With that, Jareth walked passed Sarah and left.

Julian came into the room soon after and pulled on Sarah's hand "Let's go, Sarah girl." She followed Julian outside and they reached a big storage room. "Get the things you need here." Sarah looked around the room that was filled with rows and rows of bags overflowing with a vast array of seeds. As she took a handful of orchid seeds and snapdragon seeds, her attention was caught by a small unlabeled bag in the back of a shelf, where it seemed to have not been moved in years.

"What kind of seeds does that little bag hold?" she asked curiously.

"Eh? What that thing?" replied the goblin. "Nobody knows. The king's mother gave it to him before she died. She was awfully young she was. Him only a lad at the time. He tried planting one but it never grew. He got every florist in the kingdom to try to grow one but none of them could. Nobody had ever seen that kind of seed before. They decided that it is from another world and doesn't grow in this kind of environment. The thing is that not even other-worlders have seen that kind of seed. Weird eh? The bag's remained in that spot ever since."

Sarah was intrigued by it. "Can I take some?"

"Didn't you just hear what I said? That plant doesn't grow here. You'll just be wasting time," replied an exasperated Julian.

"But there isn't any harm in trying. I just want to try and do something different," said Sarah.

"Whatever. Your time, not mine." And with that, Sarah took the little bag from the shelf and placed in with her other things.

At noon, Jareth got up from his desk covered with books and went to the window. He saw Sarah kneeled over a patch of dirt. Her face was covered with dirt and as well as her clothes. Still beautiful. He stared at her for a long time. Sarah felt someone watching her but she ignored the feeling. She finally finished planting the last seeds. They were the unknown seeds and she made sure to place them in the center of the plot. Sarah lay down, resting her head on a rock. She looked at the sky and began humming. After a moment, she realized that she didn't even know the tune she was humming. She sat up perplexed at this. She looked around and thought she saw Jareth looking at her from his window high above in his castle. Jareth quickly shut the blinds. Sarah got up, wiping the dirt from her clothes, and went back into the castle, not realizing that she was again humming the tune. The melody of secrets from her past.

After Sarah took a shower, Julian had brought her an earthy brown outfit to wear. It consisted of a modest sleeveless shirt that had laces crossing in the back that was bare. The skirt was long and ruffled with green stringed beads hanging from the waist. Nothing impressive. When Sarah put it on, her eyes sprung forward and Julian had to repress a wide-eye stare as her eyes shimmered more beautifully than the Zoram star, said to be the most spectacular thing in the known universe.

"Does this look okay, Julian?" asked Sarah with doubt. She looked at herself in the mirror and only saw imperfections that were in fact very minimal.

"It suits ye fine, girl" replied Julian, being too full of himself to say what he thought. Goblins didn't talk about their feelings.

"Okay…I hope Jareth doesn't think I look too appalling in this" said a worried Sarah.

Julian almost chuckled because he knew that the Goblin King would be impressed.

And he was.