The last ten years and her secret life of peaches crossed her mind while she was watching Toby play with Ambrosius. 'Stop thinking about it,' she told herself. 'I can't,' her inner voice replied 'YOU can't.' Sarah sighed. It was true. She couldn't stop thinking about it. Today was the anniversary and yet there wasn't a peach in sight. She'd stayed up half the night waiting but finally had fallen asleep. When she woke up she searched her room, the kitchen, even her car for a peach but she couldn't find any. She couldn't believe it! It was always there! She thought maybe she was up too early. She had decided that she would go visit her father and step mother and spend the day with Toby. The peach would defiantly be there when she got home.

"Sarah!" said Toby running up to her. "Tell me the magic words to go to the labyrinth."

Sarah frowned. In all the years she had been telling Toby the story she had never revealed the right words to him – she was too afraid of what would happen. He had stopped asking years ago, catching on that his big sister would never give in.

Sarah laughed. "Now why would you need to know that?" she asked.

He looked at her thoughtfully. "I dunno," he said biting his lip "I just want to know."

"Well I'm not going to tell you" she laughed scoping him up in her arms and tickling him.

"Ow…Saaraahh… stoppppp…. It's not fair!"

"That's right" said Sarah in her best door knocker voice "it's not fair

"But that's the way it is" exclaimed Toby excitedly interrupting. "Oh Sarah, I wish I did know the words to send us away to the Goblin King."

Sarah stopped tickling Toby and put him immediately. The look that came on her face was one of fear and warning all at once. She grabbed Toby by his shoulders and lowered herself to his level.

"Toby," Sarah said sternly "you must never EVER say anything like that again do you understand?" Toby just stared back at her, a blank look crossing his face. "Do you understand?" she said harshly. He just stared back, as if under a spell. "TOBY" she shouted at him "DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?"

Toby's face shifted then and his eyes sparkled as if they had somehow uncovered a secret and the corners of his mouth turned up as if into a smirk. It frightened Sarah a bit.

"I wish"| said Toby, and Sarah's frowned deepened and a small amount of fear crept into her eyes. "I wish the Goblin king would come and take YOU away, RIGHT NOW".

With that he wretched himself free of Sarah's grasp and ran away towards his parent's house. Sarah just knelt there, stunned. 'Toby' she thought 'what have you done?' Standing up Sarah looked frantically around her, searching for any sign that Toby's wish had been heard. She saw nothing 'Maybe it only works on babies' she thought. She scanned the tree line searching for the tell tale white bird that marked the Goblin King's presence. She walked around the park for a few minutes, carefully looking for anything out of place, but finding nothing by children playing and a few dogs and their owners -no goblins or men in tights – she eventually gave up and she headed in the direction that Toby had gone.

It was only after she'd exited the park that a white barn owl poked its head from behind a tree and came into view.