Sarah headed down the hill, and came up to the outer wall of the Labyrinth. She walked it's perimeter for what felt to her like hours, but she had as yet been unable to find a way into the Labyrinth. She was starting to get frustrated, and huffed in annoyance every twenty feet or so. That is, until she came across what appeared to be a small man...urinating into a fountain!

"E-excuse me?" she said with both disgust and uncertainty in her voice. The little man stopped his stream, tucked himself back into his trousers quickly, and with some embarrassment answered her as he turned.

"Oh! Excuse me!" As he fully caught sight of her though, he seemed to visibly deflate. "Oh, it's you."

Sarah wasn't visibly miffed on the outside with his dismissal, but on the inside she was seething.

"Excuse me, but, I have to get through this labyrinth. Can you help me?" The little man didn't answer her and started to stalk some flying bugs with a sprayer he had picked up from the edge of the fountain.

As her annoyance climbed, Sarah looked away from the little man. She felt that she was about two seconds from lashing out at him. That is, until she caught sight of what she thought were nothing more than bugs, flying beetles perhaps...but no...they had human like bodies. Faeries!

"Oh! Oh sweet!" Sarah exclaimed in awe, as she stepped forward.

"Fifty-seven," said the little man, before he sprayed a faerie down, and kicked sand over it. Sarah was appalled.

"How could you!" The little man rolled his eyes at her and continued on. "Poor thing," she said, picking up the little body. "You monster. AH!" She exclaimed when she felt a bite to her hand.

"It bit me!" Sarah couldn't believe it. The little man chuckled at her expense and turned to face her.

"What did you expect faeries to do?"

"I thought they did nice things. Like granting wishes," she told him as some of her previous excitement flared.

The little man gave a small grunt and turned back to his task. "Shows what you know, don't it. Fifty-eight."

"You're horrible!" Sarah exclaimed as another faerie went down. The little man turned back to her indignantly.

"Huh? No I ain't. I'm Hoggle!" He said defiantly, motioning to his chest. "Who are you?"

"Sarah," she said, as if she couldn't believe the little man she was talking to.

"That's what I thought," Hoggle said, rolling his eyes. So this was Bella's cousin. "Fifty-nine." Down went another faerie.

"Do you know where the door to the labyrinth is?" asked Sarah, rapidly loosing what little patience she possessed.

"Maybe."

"Well, where is it?"

"Oh you little-," mumbled Hoggle as he stalked yet another faerie. "Sixty!" Hoggle said in delight.

"I said, where is it?"

"Where is what?" Hoggle asked.

"The door?!" Had the liitle scruff forgotten what they were talking about already?

"What door?" Sarah gave a huff of frustration and annoyance.

"It's hopeless asking you anything!" she exclaimed.

"Not if you ask the right questions," Hoggle said. Having already run into her cousin, Hoggle had to say, he thought this girl was a dimwit compared to Miss. Bella.

"How do I get into the labyrinth?" Sarah said, not even trying to hide her exasperation at the moment.

"Ah! Now that's more like it. You get in...there." Hoggle said, pointing to a door that Sarah was absolutely positive wasn't there before. Her fear only increased when she saw smoke issue from the passage.

"You, uh, really going in there are you?" Hoggle asked as though he were sure she wouldn't have to guts to go through with it.

"Yes. I'm afraid I have to." Sarah entered the Labyrinth, looking first one way and seeing that the corridor went on for as far as she could see. She looked in the other direction and saw the same. She quickly began loosing hope.

"Cozy, isn't it?" says Hoggle, startling Sarah, and giving a hearty laugh.

"Now," he continues facing her. "Would you go left or right?" he asks, motioning in the directions.

Sarah chews on her bottom lip in indecision. "They both look the same."

"Well, you're not going to get very far."

"Which way would you go?" she asks.

"Me? I wouldn't go either way."

"If that's all the help you're going to be, you can just leave?" Sarah snaps.

"You know your problem? You take too many things for granted," he tells her. Then he gestures around him. "Take this labyrinth. Even if you get to the center, you'll never get out again."

"That's your opinion."

"Well it's a lot better than yours!"

"Thanks for nothing, Hogwart."

Hoggle gave a mixture of a groan and a growl. "It's Hoggle! And don't say I didn't warn you," he snaps, before exiting the Labyrinth and slamming the doors behind him. He definitely likes her cousin better.