Not mine, not making any money out of if.
And sorry for the kode. I don't know what happened there. But it's fixed now!
Thanks LovelyAmberLight and Honomia Granger for telling me!When Sarah stepped into the new world, her eyes widened.
"No way!" Hoggle just smiled. He had known she would like it.
"Yeah, isn't it just the place, huh?" Sarah gave him a bright smile.
"This is absolutely fantastic!"
The forest around them reeked of magic. It was glowing. Well, obviously not literally, but all hairs on her arms stood when she felt the pulse that went through the trees. She turned to Hoggle.
"What is this place?"
Hoggle picked up a twig from the ground.
"It's the only place them damn fairies can't enter. So the trees aint loosin' their magic." He tossed the twig aside. "I would say it's a better place than that dark thingy you were in, right?" He chuckled at himself and loosened the key he had used from his chain.
"Here, takes this if you run head first into another shackle." Sarah just stared at the key.
"Hoggle I can't take that! You need it!" He chuckled again.
"I has lots of keys in my keychain." He rattled it to prove his point. "Most of 'em arent' as useful as that one, but as long as I knows which door I have to go through, I will be alright." Sarah hesitantly took the key from his hand.
"Thank you Hoggle." He murmured at the ground.
"I wonder what happened to Gamauyn." Sarah watched the sky. "I hope she didn't get hurt." She stiffened. "How the hell am I going to help her deliver the bloody egg now" She looked at Hoggle in panic. "She came to me for help, and now she's going to assume that I ran away! Or became captured!"
Of course, she had been captured, but that was not important now. She pushed the thought away and tried to focus on solving the problem.
"I wouldn't worry about that for now Sarah. Them Gamayun's have a way of seeing the right decisions and ways. It'll be okay, just hang on to that egg of yours."
Sarah began to say something but closed her mouth. She would find a solution to this dilemma later. She could always find the bird later on with the mirror. She closed her eyes. The smell around her was intoxicating. Soft, smooth, green. It stroked the inside of her nose in an almost erotic way. Even if she had been gone from New York for a couple of days, she couldn't see herself in an environment this beautiful. Uncountable nights in dirty disgusting places had set their mark on her. This reminded her of the park. Of childhood. Of Merlin. A tear fell down her cheek.
"Are you alright Sarah?"
She turned to Hoggle and put on a quick smile.
"Of course!" She dried her cheeks. "So where are we going?"
Hoggle shrugged his shoulders.
"Were do you want to go?"
Up or down?
Sarah looked down and noticed that she actually stood on a trail in the moss under her feet.
"I don't know. Let's find out!"
Birds were singing as they followed the path, after an agonising moment where they encountered a swarm of insects that definitely did not approve of them being there, they came to a bridge. Hoggle stopped in his track.
"What is it?" Sarah looked at him, and then looked at the bridge, and then back at Hoggle.
"What's the matter."
"Wait a minute…" Hoggle squinted at the bridge.
"It's alright. He's gone."
Her heart almost jumped out of her chest and she turned around so fast, she almost lost her balance. When she saw who stood in front of her, her cheeks turned red.
"Don't sneak up on people like that!" She cried at the tiny goat that now stood on the middle of the bridge. It giggled with a sound similar to tiny bells and gave Sarah a humorous glance.
"You can pass if you please. There was a man before you. If you want company, I'm sure he is not far ahead on the trail."
He galloped soundless to the other side of the bridge and turned towards them.
"Come on strangers! It's safe!"
Sarah turned to Hoggle.
"Is it?" She whispered, not to let the little goat hear her.
"Yeah it's safe." He grunted. "Just don't make the other ones mad at ye."
He started to walk over, with Sarah standing behind wondering what the hell he talked about. Then she noticed two other goats standing further into the forest.
"For bogs sake…" She followed Hoggle.
"Where are you going?"
"Won't yer brothers want you back home soon?"
The little goat followed them on the path. A decision Hoggle didn't seem all too pleased with. He had found his little trip with Sarah to be just fine when it was just the two of them, but with this little pester? Nah.
"No, it's alright, they won't mind!"
Sarah laughed as the little goat tripped. He talked a lot, but damn! He was so bloody cute.
"We don't know yet." Sarah answered his question. "I have been travelling for so long, I think I lost my destination.
"But you have to find it again miss!" The goat sounded terrified. "My brothers won't mind me walking this trail, because they know I will be home, but if I lost my way, they would come find me and take me home."
Sarah thought about Toby. How old would he be now? She didn't know. She had lost track of time. She had been running for so long.
"I don't have a home anymore."
The goat stopped.
"Everyone has a home." He looked at her dead serious. "You just have to find it." He started walking again.
"We only had the forest as our home. Now we live under the bridge."
Hoggle snorted.
"Yeah, I bet the troll was real happy 'bout that." The goat gently bumped in to him.
"As it turned out, he was a miserable swimmer. Now I have to go home, because I'm hungry and my brothers will miss me. Goodbye!"
He galloped away, and Sarah waved at him when he burst through the forest. She looked at Hoggle and laughed.
"Come on! He's only a kid! They do have a tendency to say whatever is on their mind."
Hoggle snorted again.
"Where were you taking that egg of yours?"
Sarah looked at her feet.
"Well… you know… I don't actually know. She said the egg would show me the way if we got separated."
Hoggle shook his head.
"Ridiculous. You should never trust people, or birds socialising at a place like the resort."
Sarah wrinkled her forehead at that. She had liked Gamayun well enough.
"What it is about the resort?"
"I told you. Places like that is too expensive. They would have bleed you dry, until there was nothing left of you. Until your mind was empty. Until you was empty. You don't need a place like that Sarah, you need a place that is safe."
Sarah thought about that for a moment. A they continued to walk, she thought about Toby again. It was worth it. He was safe. Her family was safe. She thought about her younger self. How she would have loved a chance to have him being taken away. Lost forever. How she had felt when she realized her wish had come through. She would never allow that to happen again. She hadn't. She wouldn't be able to bare the guilt. The heartache of knowing that is was her fault. He had been her responsibility, and this was the only way she could have done it. The only way she was able to keep him safe. That was the only wish she had, and it had come true. Now she was empty for suggestions. Lonely.
Fuck cancer ✶
